“When it was evening, His disciples came to Him, saying “This is a deserted place, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food.” But Jesus said to them. “They do not need to go away, You give them something to eat.”
Matthew 14: 14-15
Look at a situation… Lets rationalize it ! - First thought that hits most of us. This has happened so lets get anxious, this has happened so lets look at our Plan B’s. If we don’t have Plan B’s well lets start making them !
So here is this multitude of five thousand men plus women and children. And when the disciples say “Its getting late, so logically the best thing to do is to send them away so that they can go and get what they need” and here is Jesus saying that the disciples could give the multitude what they needed ! Amazing isn’t it . Take a minute to let that thought reside. God has equipped you and positioned you to take care of the needs of the multitudes around you. Here is the key … That we may see as He wants us to see.
Lets put ourselves in the shoes of the disciples that day . Ok here I am. Jesus says “They do not need to go away, You give them something to eat.” . And I go “what ?? I don’t have the money , I don’t have any food either . I have nothing to offer. But wait , there is a lad with five loaves and two fish. But naaaaa what can that be among so many ! “ So I walk on complaining and wondering …
That’s one way to think : ) And I know that’s highly probable the way I would have thought .
Now lets take a step back and look at how Jesus would have us think. If there are people around me hungry, if there are people around me with a need and if I am here its by His purpose. Lord may I see what You want me to see. God never leaves us empty . He provisions in the amazing ways. But its not always in the logical rational way that we are used to . He may bring to you a lad with five loaves and two fish. Will you see it as what it is by the world’s standards ? Or will you see it by what it is when you give it to Him ? By every sense of logic that seemed so insignificant. Will we recognize and be sensitive to what God can do ? Because its not by might nor by power : )
When its lifted to God … wow ! Try and use Mathematics to explain this !! : ) We read in verses 19-21 , “Then He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes. So they all ate and were filled, and they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments that remained.”
Someone texted me “Those who give everything in God’s hand, will find God’s hand in everything” : )
God Bless
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