Hello everyone! As I mentioned on my page about this site, I’m planning to write monthly devotional posts to share with you what I’ve been learning in my own walk with God. For this month, I wanted to share where the title of this site, Wellspring, comes from in Scripture and what it means to me in how I live out my faith.

 

As I was praying about this site over the last couple months, I felt like God reminded me of the account of the woman at the well in John 4. I encourage you to read this on your own if you have a chance, but for the sake of this post I’ll go ahead and summarize it as well. In this account, Jesus and His disciples are traveling through the land of Samaria, whose people are viewed as outcasts by the Jewish people of the time. Jesus stops to rest at a well outside a town, and while His disciples go into town to buy food, Jesus ends up talking with a woman who is also an outcast of her own Samaritan community. As the woman goes to draw water from the well for herself, Jesus tells her something both strange and profound: “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)

 

From there, the conversation progresses as the woman questions Jesus about the truth of what it means to follow God. Jesus answers her by revealing how present God is for those who seek to worship Him, regardless of what they’ve done in the past. Eventually, the woman returns to town and tells the people who’ve judged her in the past about what she’s found in Jesus. They all return to the well, along with Jesus’ disciples, and over the next two days, Jesus speaks His truth to them, until of their own accord they declare, “We have heard for ourselves and know that this One is indeed the Savior of the world.” (John 4:42) 

 

The account of Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman and her entire village has inspired me for as long as I can remember, but as I read it again while thinking about this site, I realized that it captures the heart of what I want to share through this site. As John 4:14 says, what Jesus gives us through His Spirit becomes “a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” Later on in John 7:38, He continues, “Whoever believes in me… rivers of living water will flow from within them.”

 

For everyone who has placed their trust completely in Jesus for salvation, we have received the Holy Spirit to live within us, giving us a brand new life! The wellspring in our hearts comes from His presence in us, revealing the truth of who Jesus is to us (John 16:13-14). Just as a drink of cool, fresh water can satisfy our thirst temporarily here on earth, when we seek Jesus, He continually satisfies us, like a spring that continues to bubble up with water — and never runs out.

 

There’s been many times in my life when I’m tempted to look for joy, satisfaction, and rest in temporary things offered by this world. At times, I’ve even turned to my writing trying to find something that’s only meant to be found in Jesus. But as I read again what Jesus told the woman at the well, I realized the gift that Jesus offers me of life with Him. He’s filled me with His Spirit, and when I make seeking Him my priority, I can never run dry or be completely burned out. The Holy Spirit in me continues to well up in me by revealing Jesus’ truth, and that will not change based on my circumstances.

 

My heart with calling this site Wellspring is that it helps you encounter Jesus in the same way I have, so you can also discover the gift of the living water He offers for each day through His Spirit in us.