Meanwhile, the disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat.”
But he said to them,
“I have food to eat of which you do not know.”
So the disciples said to one another,
“Could someone have brought him something to eat?”
Jesus said to them,
“My food is to do the will of the one who sent me
and to finish his work.

 The disciples come back with food and are confused by Jesus talking with a woman, but they don't press the issue. Instead, they say the least controversial thing they can think of at the moment. "Rabbi, eat."

But Jesus does not want to have what we would consider normal conversations today. He says He has other food they don't know about.

And the disciples have no idea that Jesus is not having a normal conversation with them, so of course, they ask each other where He got food. Did somebody else bring Him food? That would be weird, given that they had just gone to get Him food. Why would He have gotten food from a stranger when His disciples had gone to get Him food? Who would have chanced upon Him sitting at the well at noon? The Samaritan woman doesn't have any food on her, and it would be even stranger for a Jewish man to accept food from a Samaritan woman than to talk to her.

His food, He says, is to do the will of God the Father and finish His work. Speaking with the Samaritan woman, proclaiming the good news, has been His food. He started His conversation with her by saying, "Give me something to drink," and perhaps this statement that He has food already is an acknowledgment that she fulfilled His request. She spoke truthfully about herself to Him, and she confessed belief in the Messiah. She asked for life-giving water, and in so doing, she gave Him to drink of her own emerging faith in Him.

Yet, even without her actions, He is still satisfied. His food is to do the will of the One who sent Him. So often, we think about the fruit of our labors, the end results. If I am nice to someone, they will be nice to me. If I plant a seed, a tree will sprout. But Jesus' food is the labor itself. If we trust God, we need not worry about the end result. He will take care of that. We don't need to fix another person's brokenness. Only He can do that. All we can do is love others as He has loved us. We should be less focused on how everyone around us will react to our actions and more focused on how pleasing our actions themselves are to God. Jesus' food was not in the Samaritan woman's request for water nor in her running through the streets asking if He might be the Christ. Rather, His food was in doing the will of His Father. His food was in speaking to her, speaking the truth with love and compassion.

We should delight in doing the will of the Lord. As Fr. Baker always says, "Whenever you are about to do something, think, 'Would this be pleasing to God?'"

I'm praying for you!

:)