Commentary
The Savior’s Gifts
Jesus is the one who asks the
Samaritan woman, an outsider, for a drink.
Yet, it is Jesus who offers her
three precious gifts.
First, Jesus gives the water of
eternal life. We receive this gift in
our baptism into his death and resurrection.
The second gift is the food that
sustains Jesus himself. His food is given
to us when we do the Father’s will.
The third gift is Jesus’ words
of truth. It is not just the words of
truth that sees into the depths of our lives and our hearts. It is the words that lead us to “worship the
Father in Spirit and truth.”
And Jesus continues to reach out to us, the
way he reached out to the Samaritan woman and her people, to give us these
gifts – the gifts of eternal life.
Like the Samaritan outsiders, may
we recognize through these gifts that “this is truly the savior of the world.”
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