Come To The Well

I have a new favorite song.  I know...I know...I have a lot of them....but this one is different.  This song really speaks to my heart.  I heard it from a video we watched at church.  The song is by Casting Crowns and it is called Come To The Well.  I love the description of this song by the group.  "The heart of the entire album is this song that came from a sermon I shared about the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4. What started as an address to my students on a Wednesday night turned into a book and then into this song.When Jesus met the woman at the well, he talked to her about spiritual water, symbolic of eternal life in him. She did what lost people do. She related everything to the physical, to the here and now. When he offered living water, she hoped he meant providing her a shortcut to the daily chore of drawing water, and she likely was a little cynical in her response. Jesus said, "I'll give you water and you'll never thirst again." The Samaritan woman was like, "Oh, yeah? Well, give me some of that water so I won't have to come back to this well anymore."This woman thought she was standing by a well and talking to a man, but really she was standing by a hole in the ground and talking to the Well.  We're all like this woman. We come to Jesus and we think we already have our wells that sustain us. Our wells are called control or power or approval or talent or even entitlement. When we already have what we think is going to fulfill us, we usually just come to Jesus only to ask him to sprinkle blessings on our thing so our thing will work even better. But Jesus isn't life enhancement. Jesus is life.  All he asks is that we take what we think are our wells, realize that they are nothing but dry holes in the ground, and leave it all behind.  He asks us to come to the one true Well."  Can I get an amen here?  The lyrics go like this.

Leave it all behind,
Leave it all behind,
Leave it all behind,
Leave it all behind,

I have what you need,
But you keep on searchin,
I've done all the work,
But you keep on workin,
When you're runnin on empty,
And you can't find the remedy,
Just come to the well.

You can spend your whole life,
Chasin what's missing,
But that empty inside,
It just ain't gonna listen.
When nothing can satisfy,
And the world leaves you high and dry,
Just come to the well

And all who thirst will thirst no more,
And all who search will find what their souls long for,
The world will try, but it can never fill,
So leave it all behind, and come to the well

So bring me your heart
No matter how broken,
Just come as you are,
When your last prayer is spoken,
Just rest in my arms a while,
You'll feel the change my child,
When you come to the well

And all who thirst will thirst no more,
And all who search will find what their souls long for,
The world will try, but it can never fill,
So leave it all behind, and come to the well

Yeah
Leave it all behind

The world will try, but it can never fill... leave it all behind

And now that you're full,
Of love beyond measure,
Your joy's gonna flow,
Like a stream in the desert,
Soon all the world will see that living water is found in me,
Cuz you came to the well

And all who thirst will thirst no more,
And all who search will find what their souls long for,
The world will try, but it can never fill,
So leave it all behind, and come to the well

Leave it all behind, leave it all behind... repeat