The woman said to him, “Sir, you don’t have anything to use to get water, and the well is deep. So where are you going to get this living water?”
John 4:11
Have you ever felt like the well of your emotions was too deep for even Jesus to manage? Does your soul seem so out of whack, such a particularly depressing case, that not even Jesus himself can get to the bottom of things and heal you? Like the woman at the well, you think your troubles are too deep for him to give you any comfort. When Jesus tells you not to let your heart be troubled, you turn away from him and say, “It can’t be done. My well of pain and agony is too deep.”
But wait—isn’t Jesus the Almighty God? When you say he can’t help you, you are denying the Almighty part of his name. There’s a reason for that name, and it’s that he’s, well, “all mighty”—not partly mighty or almost mighty enough but all mighty.
Sure, it’s easy for you to go to him as Comforter or Sympathizer, maybe even Provider. But you just can’t call him Almighty, can ya? The reason a lot of Christians don’t feel Christ working in their lives is because they have refused to recognize that he is the Almighty. When you get into a particularly tough situation, don’t mock the Almighty by saying, “Of course he can’t do what I need. This is just too much for him to fix.” Do you really think your problems are bigger than Almighty God? It may seem that way at times, but it’s simply not true. So trust yourself to his care and give the Almighty back the power in your life. He has done some amazing things in history and he can do an amazing work in your life too.