Obedience - The Way to GOD'S Fullness

John 4:31  In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.  

John 4:32  But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
 
John 4:33  Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?
 
John 4:34  Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

Secondly: There is a link between the will of GOD and LIFE. “My meat is to do the will of him that sent me.” 

We remember that at this time the LORD Jesus was hungry and very faint.

He sat down at the well weary from His journey.

When the disciples came back from the town where they had bought food, they found Him remarkably revived.

They thought that somebody had brought Him some food.

But the LORD explained to them that the renewal of His life had come from doing His Father’s will.

That shows a close connection between the doing of the will of GOD and ‘Life’.

Thirdly: The link between this is a divine purpose and the fulfilment of it. “My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to accomplish His work”.

The Father’s will represented a divine purpose, and the LORD Jesus says that He was linked with that purpose.

To accomplish that divine purpose was a greater satisfaction to Him than earthly things.

We can say that He found His Life in doing the will of GOD.

Therefore, an important factor for us is that obedience is the way to GOD'S fullness.

It was so in the case of the LORD Jesus. When He said: “For this is the will of my Father, that every one that beholds the Son, and believeth on Him, should have eternal life”, it clearly shows that union with Christ, according to GOD'S will, means Life for us.

Thus GOD'S will is in vital relationship and oneness with the Son.

~T. Austin Sparks~