Passing through Samaria, Jesus and the disciples came to a city called Sychar. Near by was Jacob's well, and here Jesus sat down to rest, while the disciples went into the city to buy food. As He sat there a woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." The woman was astonished, seeing that He was a Jew, and Jews had no dealings with Samaritans. Jesus began talking to her about the living water, saying, "Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst again, but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life." The woman said, "Give me this water."

After some further conversation, the woman went into the city and invited her neighbors to come with her to the well to see Christ. "And from that city many of the Samaritans believed on Him because of the word of the woman. And they besought Him to abide with them; and he abode there two days. And many more believed. And they said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy speaking: for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Savior of the world" (vv. 39-41).

This is an intriguing story. It has been the basis of many a sermon, and has been celebrated in many poems. Jesus talked with a woman at a village well, and His words caused to spring up within her a "well" from which flowed waters that healed her soul. Someone has written a haunting little song: "Jesus gave her water, that was not in the well. She went away singing, she came back bringing others, for the water that was not in the well."

She came back bringing others. Jesus always starts one thinking of others. Andrew found Christ, and immediately he went out and brought unto Him his brother, Simon Peter. Christ found Philip. Philip found Nathaniel, and said to him, "Come and see" (John 1: 37-46).

You can't keep Christ to yourself and keep Him.

As long as we keep Him, Christ keeps us thinking of others.