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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. 

So today, because my brain isn’t functioning quite right, and because I think these verses speak for themselves, I leave you with this short little concept.  God’s word is our food- his will is our harvest.  Lets make good on it. 
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