God’s Work

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God’s Work

Saturday, February 8, 2020

“‘My food,’ said Jesus, ‘is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.’” (John 4:34 NIV)

Jesus said that his food was to do the will of the one //who had sent him and to finish his work.  This work has nothing to do with Wall Street; it has nothing to do with the United Nations; it has nothing to do with the National Basketball Association or Major League Baseball; it has nothing to do with the entertainment industry. 

It is the work that God is doing in the world.  God is calling people out of darkness, saving them, cleaning them up, and changing their lives.  He’s putting marriages together; he’s bringing children back to their parents and back to himself.  The angels rejoice when one person, as part of this work, repents of their sins and comes to God. 

This is the work //that Jesus was talking about.   

But there was something else Jesus said.  He told the disciples, “As the Father has sent me, even so send I you” (John 20:21).  That means that, as Christians, we too are part of the work //that God is doing in the world. 

Whether we never leave the place //where we grew up or we go to the uttermost parts of the earth, we are all to do our work for the Lord /as we represent him.

May God open our eyes to see that we are part of God’s enterprise on earth.  Though the world may mock us and say, “Oh, you’re just fanatics,” it is a privilege to be a part of what God is doing.  That’s where the real action is. 

It stands to reason, then, that we can’t just go to church for an hour on Sunday and think that’s it. 

There’s so much more that the Lord wants to do in and through us, but we have to get our direction from him

/as we pray and wait upon him.  Maybe he wants to use you as a choir member or a Sunday school teacher.

He could direct you to go on a mission trip; or to pick someone up and take them to a worship service; or to visit a shut-in and show them the love of God.  Perhaps God will impress you to call someone and pray with them for a need () they may have.

Remember that when you pray and wait and find God’s will for your life and do it, God’s Holy Spirit will also energize you to do the work; he’s not expecting you to do it in your own strength.  Moreover, you will find fulfillment in doing God’s work.

That’s [what Jesus meant] when he said that his food was to do the will of God and to finish his work, for food provides strength and it also provides satisfaction and fulfillment.  

Read John 4:31-38.