The woman at the well was a very thirsty human being. I don’t mean by that statement that she was very thirsty physically. Instead, the story in John 4 is the story of humanity’s thirst for wholeness and joyful contentment. She had been married four times, and when she met Jesus, she was living with a man out of wedlock. She had spent her life trying to find emotional completeness through an endless series of failed relationships. Her emotional thirst was obviously unquenchable until she met the one man who promised to quench her thirst forever.
John 4:13-14 NASB95
Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; [14] but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
Did you know that Christ as your life can so satisfy your heart that you can be free from ever neurotically thirsting again for enough affection, affirmation, approval, security (emotionally or materially), significance, influence, pleasure, etc?
The eternal life that Jesus promised her as a well of water springing up within her, completely satisfying all longings, was not the promise of a future destination but was the promise of the invasion of the heavenly life Jesus lives, into her very soul via the indwelling Holy Spirit. I know to be free from thirst (the kind of thirst that Jesus was talking about sounds like some kind of pipedream; but let’s not water it down (no pun intended) just to fit our incomplete experience. Allow the promise of Jesus that every internal thirst can be quenched by the eternal life He lives within us to awaken a freshly enchanted vision in your heart of what it means to be “complete in Christ.” Colossians 2:10. It’s real. Don’t settle for less than the real thing. In Christ, there is only the “thirst” to experience more of the righteousness of Christ. You can’t get more, but you can always experience more. Wow! Such joy!