Filling up your tank

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The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

John 4:9 (NIV)

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In comparison to last week's blog, this will be short. This week I have been doing a lot of traveling. On Friday, I was at a petrol station filling up my car and as I was stood watching my car drink petrol and with it my money, I was blessed with an analogy.

Whilst on earth, we are much like cars. Our soul on the inside - the passenger, and our body the external part of the car. Whether our car works, depends on what fuel we put in. If we put petrol in a diesel car, we can go nowhere. If we put diesel in a petrol car - still we can't move. If, however we put diesel in a diesel car, and petrol in a petrol car, they work just fine. Imagine for a second, though, that there was a fuel that works regardless of the car you have. A kind of fuel that you would never not be able to afford. Life is like this. If we put the right fuel in, look after ourselves, we can go places but eventually we run out and have to fill up. Similarly, if we put the wrong fuel in, we are stuck for a while. But with Jesus, He offers us fuel that will never run out. He has the fuel that will sustain us forever. No matter the type of car, whether you are diesel or petrol, Samaritan or Jew - His fuel - the love of the Father, is for everyone.

This is the story we read about in John, Jesus asks a Samaritan woman for a drink from the well and uses this as a way to demonstrate the economy of the Kingdom of Heaven. What is of this world is temporary, but what is of the Lord is eternal.

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Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but 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 4:13-14 (NIV)

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So, the question today is, what do you use to fill up your tank? Petrol, diesel, or His fuel? The things of this world, or the things of the Eternal?

Life is a journey; long is the road,

And when the noontide is high

Souls that are weary faint ‘neath their load,

Long for the waters, and cry:

The well is deep and I require

A draught of the water of life,

But none can quench my soul’s desire

For a draught of the water of life;

Till one draws near who the cry will heed,

Helper of men in their time of need,

And I, Believing, find indeed That Christ is the water of life

Amen