The Gift of God

If thou didst know the Gift of God and Who it is that asks, you would ask Him, and He would give you living water (John 4:10--Jesus to the Woman at the Well).

The Gift of God is friendship with God by His Presence/Spirit, which makes us (gradually) one with Him and one with others, destroying boundaries and barriers between the two, as Christ did in His own flesh.  He is the reconciliation of man with God and man with man, restoring to the earth the original harmonies in the Garden of Eden. 

Those who will not accept the Gift of God--His own Spirit-- can never overcome the barriers to unity (i.e., the Tower of Babel) because each one will always strive to build a name for himself at the expense of others---or each tribe or nation will build a name for itself at the expense of others.  But God's Gift to us is a blessing that we may then become a blessing to all others.

The woman at the well received the living water of acceptance/ friendship/ revelation from God and also acceptance/friendship/ revelation from others in her village.  She, the outcast, the shunned, the rejected and alone, became the center and source of blessing/living water for all the rest.  The came to the well--the center of the village--to find Jesus.  Of all the people in the village, she was the one chosen to become the well for the rest.  He made her "acceptable"  and valuable, the one thing she had sought all her life through five husbands and a sixth relationship.