“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.”
John 4:34 NIV
Have you ever thought to yourself, “What am I doing?”. What am I really accomplishing? It is easy to get caught up in the demands of everyday life, fulfilling your own desires, and fulfilling the desires of others. It seems as if there is this constant pull to do this or to do that.
Jesus was also pulled and tugged at by the things going on around him. Jesus had just finished talking to a woman at the well and his disciples come up to him asking him to eat. Jesus was in the middle of doing what his father, God, wanted him to do and here his disciples are asking him questions. Of course the disciples were not asking him to do something bad, or intentionally trying to take him away from his work, but they were asking him to do something that in that moment was not a primary concern.
Jesus knew what was most important. He was not afraid to refuse to submit to his own desires or the desires of his disciples in order to accomplish what he really needed to do.
Today, if you feel like life is pulling at you and you are not the most important things done don’t be afraid to take a step back and delete the non-essential demands that either you or someone else has put on you. Remember that your only responsibility is to do the will of the on who sent you and to finish his work, not your own work, not anyone else's work, his work!
By: Danielle O’Neil @danielleoneil.com