A Message for 5.28.2005
Live by your service to God.
John 4:31-34
“(31) In the meantime the disciples kept urging Him, ‘Rabbi, eat something.’ (32) But He said, ‘I have food to eat that you don’t know about.’ (33) The disciples said to one another, ‘Could someone have brought Him something to eat?’ (34) ‘My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work,’ Jesus told them. [HCSB]
Earlier in John chapter 4, we find that the disciples had gone to buy food. They were traveling with Jesus to Galilee, and had gone through Samaria. Jesus stayed behind when the disciples went, and we find Jesus sitting by a well. While Jesus is at the well, a woman comes looking to get water from the well. Jesus tells her of His living water and tells her of her past. He also reveals to this woman that He is the Messiah.
After the woman has left, the disciples return with food. However, look what verses 31 and 32 tell us. Even though the disciples had urged Jesus to eat something, he refused and said he had already had food that the disciples did not know about.
This puzzled the disciples as much as it would puzzle anyone else. Then Jesus tells them His secret, and teaches the disciples that He feed off His service to the Lord.
Friends, we often get caught up in things of our human nature, and forget that Jesus taught us that in him we will find all we need. It’s time the Body of Christ stop depending on what we can bring to ourselves, and begin living on the things of God. The next time you find yourself a little tired with the things of your daily life, Remember that we are to all things in the name of Christ. Trust the Lord, and allow Him to give you the strength you need. Maybe that is why we were taught that Jesus is the Bread of Life, and the Living Water. |