All week ive been reflecting on the words Jesus shared with his disciples upon their return to find him at the well. Eat they said. But he didnt need to. Eat. And he says, I have food you know nothing about. How true that statement is...do we know anything about that food, I mean really know...food defined as doing the will of the Father...being sustained by obedience, being nourished by a life lived pointing to One who is greater, do we know this food? Have you tasted it?
Fasting is difficult, Im not good at giving up food...in fact im poor at it. I watch Man vs Food and I'm convinced I could handle any of the challenges. The thought of being sustained by 'thy will be done' is something that is wholly foreign to me...but yet this is how Christ described what had just happened. He had done the will of the Father and food was unnecessary in that moment...which makes me think again, food? Unneccesary? Inconceivable!
There are those in my life who ive watched move forward with an unquenchable desire to do the will of the Father...im talking about the ones who go anywhere, do anything, say anything, trusting, believing that what compels them is not ambition or a sense of ought to, but out of complete and utter obedience to the One who has called them. These are the people who amaze me....
I pray to be sustained by that food...
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