The Most Excellent Way: Watering Hole Scuttlebutt
Pastor Kent Landhuis
THEME – We are called to do God’s will no matter what.
TEXT – John 4
Jesus said, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.” John 4:34
- Scuttlebutt can be a rumor, gossip, idle talk or breaking news.
- John 4:3-6
- Scuttlebutt can be true or untrue.
2. Even when true, scuttlebutt can be hard to hear.
- John 4:7-11
- Get your scuttlebutt from the source.
3. Some truth violates expectations.
- John 4:27
- Prepare to answer the question, “What are you thinking?”
4. Follow God’s calling no matter what.
- John 4:29-42
- Celebrate the good news with more scuttlebutt.
JOURNAL
- Am I driven to do God’s will?
- How is God’s will like food to me?
- Where is my favorite watering hole?
FOR FURTHER REFLECTION ON JOHN 4
28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”
39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”
42 They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”
