Imagine an ordinary day — mundane, filled with routines. But suppose that during the course of that ordinary day comes an encounter with Jesus Christ.
“Can you imagine what that would mean for your life and for your eternal journey to have such an experience with the Savior?” asked Sister Tracy Y. Browning, second counselor in the Primary general presidency, during an Ensign College devotional on Tuesday, Nov. 18.
In the New Testament, a woman of Samaria walks to a well in the heat of the day to draw water — an ordinary errand — and has such an encounter. The Savior asks the woman for a drink. She responds by articulating the factors that seemingly separated her and Him, including the strain that existed at the time between her people and His.
The Savior, however, “did not demonstrate the least concern about perceived Jewish-Samaritan tension,” Sister Browning said. Instead, He speaks of quenching a deeper thirst, one that could not be satisfied by the water from the well, “but only with something infinitely greater” — living water.
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