"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. They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up twelve full baskets of the broken pieces, and also of the fish. There were five thousand men who ate the loaves" Mark 6:41-44.
The message from the miracle is that little is much when it's in the Master's hands. Limited resources are no hindrance to the multiplier of the loaves and fishes.
Most of us are keenly aware of our limited and even diminished resources. Inflationary times reduce supply and spending power. Making ends meet becomes increasingly difficult. Similarly, christian workers and resources have nearly always been in short supply. It is well stated by Jesus: “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few” Matthew 9:37.
The Lord's work never lacks the Lord's provision. In the hands of Jesus, twelve men turned the world upside down - a seeming impossibility on par with feeding over five thousand people with five loaves and two fishes.
What would the Lord do today with our lives and resources firmly placed in His hands? The possibilities are as limitless as the food supply was on that amazing day.
We are the proverbial widow's mite - a mere pittance of an offering even though given totally and completely. Our Lord Jesus specializes in miraculously multiplying miniscule quantities so as to produce abundance more than adequate for the need.
The abundance of our lives will never be enough when only given partially, but the limitations of our lives will never be too little when given completely.
Place what you have and are in His hands today, without reservation or hesitation, and watch Him perform the miracle of multiplication to meet the needs He sees best.
©Steve Taylor, 2023 --Used by permission
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