Who Is This?

Who is this? Is he speaking to me?

Asking me for water!? It cannot be!

But yes - he’s fascinating, somehow

And looking directly at me now:

His voice is soft, his eyes all-knowing.

What’s happening inside me? I am glowing!

A wilderness life transformed today

By this oasis, Horeb rock, the Way

To a God I didn’t know before -

One that I’ve been longing for

With a desert thirst, but going astray

Searching each and every way.

I’ve left my jar, compelled to tell

Everyone about the man at the well.

Who is this? Who do you think it might be,

The man who knew so much about me?

The Messiah, the promised Holy One,

Here for the outcasts, God’s own Son?

Reconciliation is here at last:

We can start anew, forgive the past,

Receive God’s love into our hearts

With hope and trust, make new starts.

Who is this? Remind ourselves each day

That Jesus shows us the better way:

He asks us for water from the deep well.

How could we refuse? Let’s serve. Let’s tell.

Julie Rubidge, Lay Minister