I love the story of the Samaritan woman who came to the well at noon to draw water to avoid the other women in their earlier morning visit to the well. Jewish men didn't speak to Samaritan women. In fact they didn't even customarily speak to Samaritan men - certainly not civilly. Yet there Jesus was, sitting at the well, waiting for her to come.
And what did he do? He put himself in need of her, asking her for a drink of water as his segue to offering her living water. I love the account of the story as related in John 4.
When the disciples got back from their trek into town they urged Jesus to eat something. His response was most peculiar - "I have food to eat that you do not know about" and then he clarified that even further when he said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work."
His response to his disciples should be our mantra as well. We will not find joy or fulfillment unless we are doing the will of him who saved us.... We are saved from something but we are also saved to something. From death to life!
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