Pouring Out from a Broken Vessel

The interesting thing is that Jesus was on His way to Galilee, and on His way to Galilee, He decided to make a detour. Scripture tells us that He needed to go through Samaria.

That statement reveals intention. Jesus did not wander into Samaria by accident. He went there on purpose. He showed up because someone needed Him.

We often hear about pouring out and pouring in, but we must remember this: we are flawed vessels. Nobody is perfect.

The flaws within us do not mean that God has cast us aside or that He cannot use us. God uses broken vessels. He works through weakness.

Even when the vessel feels weak, cracked, or fragile, God still calls for worship. When we pour out worship to Him, He turns and brings healing, breakthrough, and deliverance.

John 4:7, 10 (NKJV)

“A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, ‘Give Me a drink.’ …
If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

Jesus met a woman whose life was leaking. Her past, her pain, and her patterns had left her empty and thirsty.

She had been through relationship after relationship. What she depended on to satisfy her left her dry.

Yet Jesus did not avoid her. He met her right where she was.

Jesus showed her that what we pour out does not come from an external source, but from an inner well He creates within us.

The Samaritan woman came to the well with one purpose: to draw water. She came at an unusual time because she was rejected by others.

Yet her emptiness did not cancel God’s assignment. Her brokenness did not disqualify her.

God pours purpose into places that feel pointless. Even when life seems empty, God is still intentional.

Jesus promised her water that would become a well springing up into everlasting life. That is overflow.

Overflow happens when we allow Jesus to fill places we tried to fill on our own.

One encounter with Jesus did what many relationships could not do. Her life was transformed, and because she was changed, a whole village was changed.

Jesus poured into her unconditionally.

He broke cultural barriers, racial barriers, gender barriers, and the barrier of her moral past.

His love was not determined by the condition of the vessel, but by the nature of who He is.

When we feel unworthy, He pours grace. When we feel broken, He pours mercy.

The woman left her waterpot and ran to tell others.

Righteousness is not perfection. It is obedience flowing from encounter.

When righteousness flows, we do not keep the water to ourselves. We become vessels God uses to refresh others.

We may come to Jesus as leaking, broken vessels, but His presence transforms what pours out of our lives.

When He fills us, purpose is restored, overflow is released, love flows freely, and righteousness becomes visible.

Father, we thank You for pouring into us. We thank You that broken vessels and broken places can become fountains of living water.

We give You grace, honor, and glory, with thanksgiving, in Jesus’ name. Amen.