Reflection on John 4

Reflection on John 4

Jesus is the BETTER water.
Jesus is the only one who can give us life-giving water that doesn't just quench temporal thirst but spiritual existential thirst.

10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

(John 4:10)


13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

(John 4:13-14)

May we always rest in the fact that Jesus is the ONLY one who can give us life-giving water.
May we always trust that ONLY Jesus can give us water to quench our existential thirst for love
May we always trust that ONLY Jesus can give us water to quench our existential thirst for truth
May we always trust that ONLY Jesus can give us water to quench our existential thirst for power over death (eternal life)

Jesus shows us the BETTER Food.

34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.

(John 4:34)

What sustains Jesus is living to obey God and do what God requires. What spurs Jesus on and gives him strength and a reason for being is his obedience to God and his dedication to what God sent him to do. Jesus' daily urge is to complete the work God sent him to do on earth.

May we always remember and live to obey God as our reason for existence and our reason for being.
May we always remember and live to complete the work of God.