Two Kinds of Food

Hi friends! As I was praying for you today this is what God led me to:

We are all probably familiar with this concept of spiritual food:

"man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD." ~ Deut 8:3

But here is another kind of food:

Meanwhile his disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat something."

But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."

Then his disciples said to each other, "Could someone have brought him food?"

"My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
~John 4:31-34

This is really interesting to me and it resonates with what I know about the Christian life. Here Jesus compared doing God's will to food. His disciples must have noticed that he hadn't eaten in a while. They urged him to eat and Jesus says that he has his own secret kind of food. What did he mean by this? Here is what I think.
On this earth, there is nothing more fulfilling than doing God's will. I hope all of you already know and have experienced this. There is an overflowing joy that goes along with being part of what God is doing. Furthermore, and as these verses seem to point out, there is something nourishing about it. There is something about doing God's will that energizes and satisfies you, kind of like food. When we do God's will we satisfy our spiritual hunger.
So all of this is very interesting to me. We are fed when God's word goes in us, but we are also fed when God's will goes out of us. So now let me ask you, have you been feeling fulfilled lately? And if not, which of these two kinds of food could you use more of? Perhaps you could use more of both of them, I certainly could.
God is Good.
With His Love,
Charlie