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people, plus more. “You give them something to eat.” That was
an impossible command. Nobody could do what Jesus told
them to do. They had five biscuits, two fish and maybe ten
thousand people because it was men plus women and children.
It was absolutely impossible to obey God.
That miracle continued and showed how the impossible
can become possible. The simple answer is to bring Jesus into
the picture. Mark 6:41-43, “And He took the five loaves and
the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food
and broke the loaves and He kept giving them to the disciples
to set before them; and He divided up the two fish among them
all. And they all ate and were satisfied. And they picked up
twelve full baskets of the broken pieces, and also of the fish,
and there were five thousand men who ate the loaves.”
The Lord Jesus took a little boy’s lunch and divided it
thirteen ways. I don’t know if you were holding one thirteenth
of a little boy’s lunch what it would look like. The gospel tells
us that the smallest group was fifty. If you had that in your hand
and the smallest group was fifty people, what would you do?
Would you give it to one person? Would you try to break it? It
doesn’t look like enough. It doesn’t feel like enough. It never
feels like you have enough Jesus. But that morsel was a picture
of the adequacy of Christ. At the end, if God had said, “Pick up
everything you handed out,” it would break your back. You
wouldn’t be able to carry what you handed out. But at the
moment it doesn’t feel like enough or look like enough.
I study to teach. It never feels like I have enough. But
when I look back over the years at how much God has given, I
couldn’t carry it all. Here’s what Jesus said, “Hand it out and
then come back for more. Give yourself until empty and bring
your basket for more.” How to obey an impossible command;
give yourself out empty and keep coming to Jesus. That was
the lesson of the loaves. Now our Lord Jesus is going to test
them to see if they learned the lesson of the loaves; to trust Jesus
to do the impossible.
We know that something very spiritual is going on
because Jesus did something here that He never did before and
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