“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. 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. 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. Thus the saying “One sows and another reaps” is true. 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.’ Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, ‘He told me everything I ever did.’ So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. And because of his words many more became believers. 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.’” John 4:31-42

What do we most want for other people? I guess that kind of depends on who we’re talking about. We might be thinking of someone that we’d like to see raised out of poverty. We might know someone else who we want to have a good education. We might be thinking about someone that we want to have better health.

Let me say those are noble and Christian things to want for other people. But the question is what do “I” most want for other people. And the correct answer is always for them to know the Lord and for them to go to heaven. What I most want for anyone is the salvation of their soul, for them to have the hope of heaven.

We are again in John chapter 4. We have been watching Jesus teach a master class in personal evangelism. Jesus is teaching us to reach out to other people and encourage them and teach them about the Lord. We have six more things to look at. They are not all easy. But each thing that Jesus shows us is something that we can do. Let’s begin.

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