John 4:34-38

Without food we cannot live, our spiritual life depends upon doing the will of God. It is His will that all be saved. Whoever will hear and accept His gift of salvation in the works of Jesus Christ will be saved. It is our job to get the word out to all people of the truth of the existence of God, that there is hope of life after death and the path to Him is in the death and resurrection of Jesus the Christ. Joy in the truth is our strength!!


This food is not simply knowing the will of God, but doing it. This verse highlights the obedience of Jesus to God in His ministry and foreshadows His words on the Cross. Jesus offered His disciples an opportunity to do something that would be “food” for them. The reaper of a spiritual harvest receives wages—that is, fruit which brings joy. The disciples were going to reap the harvest that Christ had sown.

4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! 36 And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”