He is the Living Water

May 11, 2025    Fr Seraphim Saleeb
This sermon delves into the Gospel of John, chapter four, focusing on the encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman to explain that Jesus Christ is the living water. The spiritual contemplation highlights that the woman, who belonged to the evil Northern Kingdom of Samaria, represents a soul that has lost its spiritual virginity because her five senses have become "married to this world," evidenced by her five husbands and the sixth man she now lives with, who spiritually represents sin or the devil. Despite her deep immersion in the world, the woman remains perpetually thirsty, continuously returning to the unclean well water, which the sermon connects to the continuous human desire for more of the world's deceptive and unsatisfying offerings. The ultimate answer to this thirst is not the temporary relief sought by the woman, the paralyzed man, or the man born blind, but the true life and spiritual vision found in Jesus Christ, the source of the gushing living water that was released from his side on the cross.