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There's something worth paying attention to when we find ourselves going back to the same places, people, or habits looking for relief — and leaving just as empty as when we arrived. This devotional is about that pattern, and more importantly, about what it's trying to tell us. We're going to look honestly at the wells we keep returning to, and then we're going to bring all of it to God in prayer — because this prayer has the power to shift something deep inside us if we let it.
Short Devotional
There's a woman in the Bible who walked to a well every single day. She wasn't just thirsty for water. Her life was full of broken relationships, and somewhere along the way, she started looking for something she couldn't name in all the wrong places. She kept going back — not because she was weak, but because she was deeply thirsty for something that well could never give her. That's not a character flaw. That's a human heart doing exactly what a human heart does when it hasn't yet found the real thing. The question worth sitting with is this: What well have we been visiting over and over again, hoping that this time it will finally be enough?
Jesus told her — and tells us — that there is a water that actually works. Not a water that satisfies for a moment and then leaves us dry again, but one that becomes a spring inside us, bubbling up all the way into forever. The reason we go back to the same broken wells isn't because we're too weak to stop. It's because nothing we've tried has ever truly replaced what only Jesus can give. When we finally drink what He's offering, we don't have to white-knuckle our way away from the empty stuff — we simply lose our taste for it. That's the life He's inviting us into, and that's exactly what we're going to ask Him for right now.
Let's Pray
Heavenly Father,
Thank You for being here with me right now. I know You see every well I've been running to — every habit, every distraction, every relationship I've leaned on to fill a space that only You can fill.
I'm not going to pretend I haven't known, on some level, that none of it was working. I've gone back to the same empty places more times than I can count, and I've been ashamed of that.
But today I'm bringing it to You instead of hiding it.
Your Word says that whoever drinks the water You give will never thirst again — that it becomes a spring inside them, bubbling up into eternal life.
I want that. Not just as an idea, but as something real in my everyday life. Forgive me for settling for so much less.
Forgive me for reaching for substitutes when You were always available.
Do something in me that I cannot do for myself. Replace the pull toward those empty wells with a genuine hunger for You.
Let the spring You promised become so real inside me that I stop looking for life in places that were never designed to give it.
I trust You to finish what You've started in me.
In the name of Jesus, Amen.
Journaling Prompts
If you're completely honest, what is the one place, habit, or person you go to most when you're feeling empty — and has it ever actually left you feeling full?
Imagine you're the woman at the well. You've been going through a difficult and lonely stretch of life. What would it feel like to have someone look at you with full knowledge of your history — and still offer you something priceless?
Write about a time you kept returning to something that wasn't good for you, even when you knew better. Looking back now, what do you think you were really looking for?
The fact that we're thirsty isn't the problem — it means we were made for something real. God isn't frustrated with us for running to the wrong places; He's been patiently waiting at the right one the whole time. Something is about to shift for us as we choose, one day at a time, to bring our thirst to the only One who has ever truly been able to satisfy it.
Until next time,
May the Lord bless you and keep you;
May He make His face shine upon you;
And be gracious to you and give you peace.
God Bless!
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