How beautifully in John 4, the Lord's perfection, in submission to His Father's will, opens out into the large sphere of blessing into which that submission introduced Him. He had been rejected in Judaea (a sore trial and sorrow to Him) as to the beloved people, and had taken His way where " He must needs go," " wearied with the journey," and sat, as He was, on the well. Here grace flows forth—such was the effect, in His perfect love, and rejection of promises in His person ' and then His "meat was to do the will of Him that sent Him." This opens, thereon, out for His heart into fields " already white for harvest." And it was more than Jewish promise—it broke forth into life eternal, and, in point of fact, does take up all that was of God in the previous ways of His grace-reaped what had been sown. We have other instances of this, as Matt. 11 Oh, for littleness and lowliness of heart. " Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart.".