10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” (John 4:10-18 – English Standard Version)
Everyone has secrets. We have a small area in our hearts that do not want people to touch. There are things that we do not want people to know. It can be our wrongdoings. It can be our hurtful experiences. It can be our bad intentions. It can be our evil thoughts. We are afraid that people would know the dark side in us. But Jesus does not afraid to uncover our dark side because He knows we can never get the living water unless we are free from our dark side. We all sin. Sinning does not keep us away from getting the living water. What keeps us away from getting the living water is our unwillingness to face our failures. We need to face our failures in order to be healed. Otherwise, those failures become the baggage in life and we can never move forward. Our life would only be filled with regrets, resentment, and sorrow when we have so many baggages. Our life needs to be filled with the living water that brings hope. The first step to get the living water is to allow God to uncover our “secrets” and face our true self.
“Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband.”
