Section 14
someone great, but none is greater than Christ. Christ is greater than Jacob, Confucius, Plato, and every other kind of grandfather.
Furthermore, God's gift is greater than reli gion's inheritance. Would you like to have Jacob's well or God's gift? What is God's gift? If you say that God's gift is Christ, that answer is not totally accurate. The divine life is God's gift, for Romans 6:23 says that the free gift of God is eternal life. This divine life shall become in us a spring of water welling up into eternal life (4:14). This divine life is much better than Jacob's well. If you visit Jacob's well in Palestine today, you will find it under the control of an Armenian monk. When I visited there, everyone who wanted a cup of water from Jacob's well had to pay two dollars. However, all of that is tradition and means noth ing. The water in that well is the same as any other.
To "ask" is more prevailing than religion's way. The living water of God quenches our thirst and becomes a spring of water welling up into eternal life. Death's thirst is quenched by life. In principle, this is to change death into life.
The Lord Jesus said to the Samaritan woman, "Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again" (4:13). This statement is simple but its