True Satisfaction

John 4: 13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,  but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”... “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.  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.  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.

When I look in the mirror can I say that I am truly satisfied? If I am honest it is rare for me to be able to say that I feel truly satisfied even as a believer who tries to live wholeheartedly for God 

Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman at the well promising an end to thirst. He clearly wasn’t talking about her physical needs but rather her spiritual and perhaps to some extent emotional needs. Her search for love had seemingly resulted in a number of broken relationships. Jesus here seems to be promising a satisfaction that will last for eternity. Later when Jesus talks to his disciples he speaks of the satisfaction (food) of doing God’s will and specifically of harvesting. In the context Jesus is clearly referring to Samaritans coming into God’s kingdom. Jesus not only found satisfaction in accomplishing God’s purposes but promises us that satisfaction as we seek to work with Him in doing His mission.

 ^{Father help us to find our satifation in you and your purposes.}