Have you ever given up food for a few days? Have you ever lived on less than 1000
calories a day? This is how a lot of
the world lives. They survive on the
food they get, eat it slowly and treasure every bite. It bugs me when I throw away good food, not that I could package
it up and send it anywhere, but it still bugs me. After giving up food unintentionally for a few days, I am
realizing that less than 1000 calories a day is rough. I can still function, but my brain isn’t
quite working as well, my body gets tiered really fast and I am definitely more
irritable than I should be. Yesterday I
talked about the water, everlasting water.
Today, looking at the same chapter, Jesus then talks to His disciples
about how he has food even when nothing has been brought to Him to eat.
John 4
31 Meanwhile his
disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.”
32 But he said to
them, “I
have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
33 Then his
disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?”
34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him
who sent me and to finish his work. 35 Don’t
you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open
your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the one who reaps
draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the
reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is
true. 38 I
sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work,
and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”
I want my “food” what sustains me, what I need to have every day to be
to finish the work that God has sent me here for. To reap the harvest that others have sowed or that I have
sowed. I want to be needing His word
and his will in my life every day that
I cannot function well without it. I need
to consume His word so I know His will.
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