Matthew 16 asks a question
Do you still not understand? Don’t you remember
the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?
Remember this story? There wasn’t enough food for the masses, and
all that was available was a small boy’s lunch, which Jesus multiplied and fed
everyone, until they were satisfied.
What if we had been in that crowd and seen that
miracle? Would we ever again be afraid
of hunger or lack?
It’s amazing how we can go out of one miracle
into the depths of despair when another need arises.
It’s because we don’t understand.
If we understood who it was that blessed that
lunch and made it multiply, we would never again worry or fret about our needs
and our future.
I marvel at that story and wish I’d been there to
see it. But I have seen it. God has provided for me over and over again
in ways that I’ve seen and ways I’ve not seen.
And yet I still default into worry when the next need arises…
Why can’t we get it? What keeps us from understanding?
Remember the five loaves and the baskets that
were gathered full of leftovers.
And understand.
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