She didn’t have five husbands and another boyfriend, but she has had many boyfriends. She is my Thai friend who is nineteen, but her Swedish boyfriend is fifty. She told me, she doesn’t love him, but she is with him because he can take care of her. She dropped out of school studying hotel management and has been living in the Redlight District, the epicenter of the sex-trafficking criminal activity. Though she doesn’t state what she does there, she does tell me she’s had many foreign boyfriends, that she hangs out at the discos (clubs), and that many of the customers she’s had while working in that area are from Japan, Sweden, Russia, and other places around the world. 
Did I mention she is only 19? When I first met her, I was surprised to see that she had some kind of skin disease where it seems as if giant air bubbles covered her entire neck, arms, legs, and every visible part of her body. Even on our first meeting, she showed me a picture of how she looked when she had been in the hospital just a few days ago. Her picture looked as if those air pockets on her skin had been black. It looked as if she had been bruised all over. She didn’t tell me how she got it, but that she will be seeing her boyfriend from Sweden soon again. She also told me she just won 200 baht gambling that afternoon and that she plans to go again that night.
All that my team can really do is just to love her as our friend. We want to show her that we want to pour into her life with nothing in return because others have been with her only for what they can get from her rather than what they can give. With prayers and love, one day at a time, we hope for her and believe for her what she cannot hope and believe for herself.
“Jesus answered, ‘Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.’ The woman said to him, ‘Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.’ He told her, ‘Go, call your husband and come back.’ ‘I have no husband,’ she replied. Jesus said to her, ‘You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.’ ‘Sir, the woman said, ‘I can see that you are a prophet…’ John 4:13-18t
We seek to be satisfied, fulfilled, and secure, but instead of seeking Jesus, we’ve sought our satisfacion in addictions, sought our fulfillment in the wrong relationships, and sought our security in material possessions. We all struggle with this. Jesus isn’t speaking of an everlasting existence, but life in the everlasting. “In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not overcome it.” (John 1:4-5) This life is one that we can embrace from now till eternity, a life in which any darkness, any greed, lust, and depression cannot overcome
