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lessons of the loaves. I don’t want to spend time on the feeding of
the five thousand but I want to give you the lesson. It’s described in
Mark 6:37, “But He answered and said to them, ‘You give them
something to eat!’ And they said to Him, ‘Shall we go and spend
two hundred denari on bread and give them something to eat?’”
There were five thousand 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