My week has caught up with me and I am fatigued. My brain doesn’t want to continue thinking, my eyes are tired and my body would just like to rest.
Running out of steam is what it means to be human. Even Jesus, while in human form, felt the limits of fatigue. Here is the condescension of God. The infinite Son endured human limitations, while a man. Look at John 4:6, “Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well . . . ” (John 4:6). Jesus didn’t want to take another step. The demands on His time—the long hours, and the miles of walking—caught up with Him and He rested at the well.
Still when the Samaritan woman arrives, Jesus doesn’t ignore her. And she is so excited about meeting Him that she goes to tell the townspeople of Sychar, and they “made their way toward him” (John 4:30). Jesus, though bound by His human body, completed the hard work of prayer. He didn’t need to make the trip into Sychar: through His intercessory prayer the power of the Spirit was released in the town.
This is why He “had to go through Samaria” (John 4:4). His prayer life had produced a ripe field in the town and it was time to harvest. Prayer transcended His physical limitations and produced God’s divine purpose in Sychar. This was what He taught His disciples, “Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor” (John 4:38). Prayer unleashes the unlimited energy of God.
Today’s devotional is from Denise Larson Cooper’s book, “Ordinary Days With an Extraordinary Savior”
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