As soon as Jesus heard the news, he left in a boat to a remote area to be alone. But the crowds heard where he was headed and followed on foot from many towns. Jesus saw the huge crowd as he stepped from the boat, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick. That evening the disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away so they can go to the villages and buy food for themselves.” But Jesus said, “That isn’t necessary—you feed them.” “But we have only five loaves of bread and two fish!” they answered. “Bring them here,” he said. Then he told the people to sit down on the grass. Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, looked up toward heaven, and blessed them. Then, breaking the loaves into pieces, he gave the bread to the disciples, who distributed it to the people. They all ate as much as they wanted, and afterward, the disciples picked up twelve baskets of leftovers. About 5,000 men were fed that day, in addition to all the women and children! (Matthew 14:13-21)It was time to eat and there were no places to go to get food, so Jesus fed them. It was pretty simple in some ways. He was the Son of God. He could do so if he wanted.
But there was a point to this. The point was that the power of God through Jesus and through us is great enough to take care of the situation and to take care of us too.
How were they going to feed all those people? They only had a little food – one of the other gospels said it was a little boy who had it. Probably he was selling food through the crowd. That was a common thing, vendors following the crowds that followed Jesus.
Jesus said, well buy some food. they didn’t have enough money, or enough food on hand for 5000 men and their wives and children.
What will they do? Everybody will starve and die and the name of Jesus will be besmirched.
Jesus takes what food is there and makes it enough for everyone. Then has twelve baskets left over.
His point? I can make enough for everybody, no matter what the situation.
And not only that, I can have enough left over to take care of my disciples. There were all these people and he fed them. And there was enough left over for the twelve apostles.
Jesus said to his disciples, I can take care of all these people and still have enough left over for you. Why should you worry about being in my service?
Jesus said, in essence, do not worry about food or clothing. You will have enough. You may not have other things, but the basic needs of life will be there.
God will take care of you when you need it.
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