A few weeks ago, when we started looking at this passage we discussed the meaning of John’s statement that Jesus “needed to go through Samaria”. Jesus made it very clear that His life, the life He lived here on earth was lived in complete surrender to His Father in heaven. In John 5:19 He said that He only did what He saw the Father do, in John 12:49 He said that He only spoke what the Father commanded Him to say. In John 6:38 Jesus said, “I have come down from heaven not to do My will but the will of Him who sent Me.” When the Scripture says that Jesus had to do something or needed to go somewhere it is carefully showing us God’s heart through Jesus’ life. John said in the first chapter of his gospel “No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made Him known.” One of the key aspects we often miss or undervalue about the life of Jesus is that in coming to restore us to relationship with God He did not just need to cleanse us of sin He also had to reveal to us who God truly is. Jesus’ work was not just to get us right for God but also to rightly reveal God to us. Every relationship, even our relationship with God must have mutual devotion, love, understanding and trust, if we don’t know God in His true character we won’t yield to God in our full surrender. We have all been affected by the lies of Satan and the ideas of this world, we have seen God through our own expectations and experiences but Jesus came as I John 1:9 says to forgive us of all our sins and to also cleanse us of all unrighteousness. He came to remove the weight of our sin but He also came to wash away the residue of sin from every part of our lives, from how we think and feel about ourselves and each other, but also how we think and feel about God Himself. The life of Jesus teaches us the character of God, because every action and word of Jesus was ordered and breathed by our Father in heaven. Jesus was not making decisions, establishing a ministry or even looking for happiness, Jesus was always following the leadership of His Father. This morning we are going to move just a few more words into our passage from the fact that Jesus had to go through Samaria because that was how the Father was leading Him to the reality that Jesus was tired, even worn out, from following the path the Father had established. We all get tired. Even Jesus, being full of grace and truth, driven by the Holy Spirit and loved by the Father was at times, exhausted from the journey. Today my prayer is that we will all see that being tired does not mean that we are somehow on the wrong path, that something needs to change or that we are operating in our own strength but that expending ourselves in the will of God for the glory of God is a large part of our calling. I pray that we will see through Jesus’ example that there is a significant difference between being tired and being weary and that those who are truly weary are in desperate need of someone who will tire themselves on their behalf. Jesus, by the leadership of His Father, exhausted Himself for the sake of one woman who had become overcome by the weariness of life. He’s done the same for each of us so that we will do the same for those around us.