Tuesday, August 5, 2014

What do we lack most???

Matthew 14:15-17 As evening approached, 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 themselves some food.” Jesus replied, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.” “We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered. The disciples lacked three things in this situation. First, they lacked the resources needed to meet the need of the people around them. That was a fact. Secondly, they lacked the ability to do anything about it. They had no bank or foodbank or supernatural powers to create food. What they were forgetting was that Jesus does, and He was right there with them. The third thing they lacked was the first thing: the compassion and ability to see what God could do. In the verse before these, we are reminded of Christ's compassion as He looked out on the people. As His disciples look out on the same people, it is not with this eye of compassion; they see them as a problem who should take care of their own probelems. Jesus disagreed. He did not want them to leave. So He calls on his disciples to admit and recognize their need, what they lacked, so theyc could learn from Him what they really needed.

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