Well Done!

John 4:34-38

[34] Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. [35] Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. [36] Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. [37] For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ [38] I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

Jesus said his food is to do the will of the Father and to accomplish his work. Our lives flow out of the power and nourishment that we receive by God’s grace. If we are obedient to God and do everything for his glory, by his strength, we will hear him say, “Well done, my good and faithful servant.” If this was true for Jesus, how much more so for us?