Enjoy the Fruit of Jesus’ Labour
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is John 4:31-42. Let’s go!
John 4:31-34 (NIV)
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.
On verses 31-34: I could see the disciples coming to Jesus with food already in their mouths and casually inviting Jesus to eat something (v31). Yet Jesus’ response confuses them (v32-33). When Jesus says, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work” (v34), what does he mean? Jesus means that what drives him, satisfies him and empowers his life is doing his Father’s will and completing the assignment he has been given. Jesus would say something related in Matthew 4 in the desert: “Man shall not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” (Matthew 4:4) Take John 4:34 and Matthew 4:4 together and we get a powerful truth: Jesus fed on two things – meditating on God’s Word and doing God’s work.

