“The woman said to him, 

“Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.” -John 4:15

She takes two buses to get to Jacob's Well Church, and yesterday she responded to the gospel call at the end of the message on the woman at the well in John 4.

 “…whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” -John 4:14

When I saw her hand raised I felt the resonance of Heavenly joy echoing in my soul knowing:

“…there is joy in the presence of God’s angels when even one sinner repents.” -Jesus (Luke 15:10)

Gospel work is labor and we don’t always see the outcomes of the sowing but sometimes we do.

 John‬ ‭4‬:‭35‬-‭38‬ ‭

“Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.””

The response from this young woman was in part the result of the faithful work of many gospel workers in the fields. 

I met her while she was staying at the Union Gospel Mission’s Crisis Shelter for Women and Children. 

It was a step for her to the next step of getting out of a cycle of homelessness. 

She’s now in a home and working and…coming to Church.

 When we first met her she was not ready to respond to Christ. 

Sunday she was open for Him to work within her.

  Ministries like UGM are simply places where activated Christians are serving the city. 

Churches send out their members to do the work of God. 

Our Sunday services equip the people of God to do the works He’s called them to do.

 Together we are digging wells, but only Jesus opens the streams of living water that feed the wells.

 “There the Israelites sang this song: 

“Spring up, O well! Yes, sing its praises! Sing of this well, which princes dug, which great leaders hollowed out with their scepters and staffs,” -‭‭Numbers‬ ‭21‬:‭17‬-‭18

‬Pray that the Lord will create a well of living water within her and by His Spirit enable her to drink of that life giving spring welling up to eternity."

Pastor Eric.