Good morning. I know that messiah is coming; when that One comes, He will declare all things to us. I who speak to you am He. Jesus did not declare that He was the Messiah in front of the Jews – they would’ve gotten very angry. The disciples return, and the woman goes into the city. She tells them to come see a man who has told her all the things that she has done. This is not the Christ, is it? They went out of the city, and were coming to Him. The disciples had gotten something to eat, and so they encouraged Jesus to eat. I have food to eat that you do not know about. The disciples, as usual, were thinking in the natural. No one brought Him anything to eat, did he? My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work. Now comes the verse that is similar to the one we looked at in a different gospel. Do you not say, there are yet four months, and then comes the harvest? I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields that they are white for harvest. It was at this point that the woman and the men from the city were arriving to Jesus. Already he who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for life eternal, so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor. The whole process does not depend on just one person. It is a group effort. Some do one part and some do another part. Both are necessary; neither one gets the glory. Father thank You that we may enter into labor with You to bring people into the Kingdom. Bless the reader and his/her family today and every day.

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