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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 that He
never did again. It’s a very strong word in the original
language. Matthew 14:22, “And immediately He made the
disciples get into the boat, and go ahead of Him to the other