My food...

I've been praying to have a greater sharing of God's delight and satisfaction in doing His will. Not the kind of half-hearted, going through the motion kind.. but really, to delight in pleasing God.
Thank God that over the past few days, I see my prayer being answered. I'm starting to feel the kind of joy and satisfaction. It's kinda hard to describe, but it's definitely a stronger delight than munching down food. It's also of a fundamentally different nature.

I only pray that I will continue labouring for Him because I find that it is only in truly labouring for Him out of love that I find the increased joy and satisfaction.

John 4
³¹ Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” ³² But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” ³³ So the disciples were saying to one another, “No one brought Him anything to eat, did he?” ³⁴ Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work. 


May this joy and satisfaction be increasingly real and intense in every aspect of my life, and may I strive towards that end.


Also, months back, when I heard this passage being preached, I prayed this for the youths as well.
Eph 3:14-21
‎14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. 20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, 21 to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. 


I'm thankful to see that over yesterday and today, we've been reminded deeply about God's love for us. I really think that we know and understand so little of God's love for us and who God really is. It is little wonder that our response to His saving grace is so lackluster.