Today's texts are Jesus' encounters with the Samarian woman at the well and the lame man by the pool at Bethesda. In both cases, Jesus engages them, knowing what He would do but needing them to allow Him to do it. God is trying to remind us who we are talking to. After He rose from the tomb, Jesus found the apostles fishing. He knew they had no fish when He asked, "Have you any meat?" He did not ask to embarrass them but to remind them who He was and who they were: fishers of men. We need to remember who He is and who He says we are.Don't let what we lack keep us from being what he wants us to be. Too many allow what they do not have to keep them from coming to God. Jesus asked Phillip where they would get bread to feed the multitude, but the bible says Jesus already knew what He would do. Jesus doesn't need what we have or what we don't have. He can work miracles with what little we have; all we have to do is let Him. Jesus tells the woman at the well to get her husband; He already knew she didn't have one. He knew she had been married five times and that the man she was with was not her husband. Even knowing all that about her, Jesus went to Samaria to meet her and reveal Himself to her. Jesus asked the man by the Bethesda pool if he would be healed. The man responded with excuses about what he didn't have. Jesus is more interested today in what we do have because he knows what he is going to do. He knows we have no bread. He knows we have no fish. He knows we have no man to help us. He knows we have no husband, but none of that matters because He knows what He wants to do. Jesus wants to work in our lives regardless of what we lack. We do not come with fear and worry because of what God lacks; we come with fear and worry because of what we don't have. It doesn't matter what we don't have because He has all we need.