“My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to
accomplish his work.” John 4:34
A wonderful feature of spiritual ministry is that it
refreshes the one who engages in it. Take, for example, the incident of Jesus
at the well of Sychar. He was genuinely thirsty when he asked the woman for a
drink, but in his concern for her as a needy sinner he ignored his own
condition. Instead he engaged her in a conversation that ministered the water
of life to her soul.
Then the disciples returned. To their surprise, the Lord
looked so refreshed that they began to ask one another where this provision had
come from. The answer was, of course, that in giving another to drink of the
living water, he himself had found his own thirst satisfied. Life in the Spirit
and ministry in the Spirit are always like this.
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