Hi, and thanks for joining us for this daily encouragement from the Our Daily Bread Devotional.

I'm Bill Crowder, and I've entitled today's reading, Water, Where We Needed.

Lake by Cal, the world's deepest lake, is vast and magnificent.

Measuring one mile deep and nearly 400 miles, that's 636 kilometers, by 49 miles, that's 79 kilometers across,

it contains one-fifth of all the surface fresh water in the world.

But this water is largely inaccessible. Lake

by Cal is located in Siberia, one of the most remote areas of Russia. With water so desperately

needed for much of our planet, it's ironic that such a vast supply of water is tucked away in a place

where not many people can access it. Although Lake

Baikal may be remote, there is an endless source of life-giving water that is available and

accessible to those who need it most. When at a well in Samaria, Jesus engaged a woman in

conversation probing at the edges of her deep spiritual thirst.

The solution to her heart need?

Jesus himself.

In contrast to the water she had come to draw from the well, in John chapter 4, Jesus

offered something better.

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.

Many things promise satisfaction, but never fully quench our thirsty hearts.

Jesus alone can truly satisfy our spiritual thirst, and his provision is available to everyone everywhere.

Today's our daily bread devotional scripture reading is from John chapter 4, verses 7 to 14.

When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, will you give me a drink?

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