How do you go from weary to completely filled up full? We can ask that about life in general, but especially in our Christian life as well. Often as summer comes, our life with God can feel weary and drained, just like our bodies do in the summer heat. But in the span of 35 verses in John 4, Jesus goes from weary to satisfied. When I am tired and weary, worn out from the noonday sun of life beating down on me, my summer instinct is to jump into the pool rather than jump into a conversation about life with those around me. How does Jesus do it? It’s easy to think that it was only Jesus’ divine nature that was sustained and enlivened by doing His Father’s will. But He tells the disciples that being on mission with His Father feeds and satisfies the actual hunger of His frail human nature more than food does. Again, we ask, how did He do it? Can being on mission with our Father satisfy our worn out and weary humanity as well? How does Jesus go from sapped to satisfied? The first thing He does is He sees. Jesus sees those around Him in a way that we can too but we often don’t because of our weariness. But Jesus is able to see this woman in a way that His disciples do not or will not that overcomes His weariness. Join us in John 4 as we look at how we can also see like Jesus.
