Unlimited: The Crowds Are Hungry
Dec 11, 2020 1205
By this time, it was late in the day, so his disciples came to him. “This is a remote place,” they said, “and it’s already very late. Send the people away so that they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”
But he answered, “You give them something to eat” (Mark 6:35–37, NIV).
It’s late in the day. Jesus taught the large crowd of people all day, and the disciples think they have a problem.
What do they do? They come to Jesus for him to solve it for them!
While Jesus was been teaching the people spiritual truths, the disciples are worried about material things.
There are thousands of people there in that huge crowd, and the disciples are probably tired and hungry, but the crowds don’t want to go. So, the disciples come to Jesus and ask him to call it a day and stop teaching and send the people away so they can get dinner.
But the reality is that the disciples don’t have a problem at all. Because it’s Jesus, God himself, who is teaching and in charge. And if Jesus wants to keep teaching, so be it. He is able to supply the people’s needs at the right time. And he gave the people what they needed most: his teachings.
But the disciples don’t see that. They think they have a problem, because they think they know best and that at some level they are in charge.
So, Jesus says to them, in effect, “Well, if you think there’s a problem, you fix it.”
And that was something that just wasn’t going to work!
Too often we think there’s a problem when there really isn’t, because Jesus is still in control.
And Jesus lets us try to fix it to help us understand that we need to depend on him.
It’s one of the hardest lessons to learn.
– Eliezer Gonzalez
Eli’s Reflection: What’s a difficult area in your life right now? Are you willing to let go and trust in Jesus? He’s in control in your life just as he was in these verses.
Kini Rema
May 10, 2022
Thank you for the insight and I get that. Similar incident happened last weekend during our Mother-daughter Conference where the word of God was enjoyed by all women who were in attendance. The sessions went without lunch break until 3pm in the afternoon. The fathers and sons were telling me to stop the Speakers but the women were just soaked in the word and weren't going to have food. Truly, God does amazing things that humans don't understand. God bless your ministry!🙏🏽
Olivia
Dec 12, 2020
I truly put my trust in God and Jesus cause I know deep in my heart he will get me through what I'm going through in his name sake cause. My Lord has never left me nor forsake me in his name sake I thank my Jesus son of God I know what I know cause I love him truly as he loves me right now I believe Jesus stands firm on his beliefs Amen
NICHOLAS ERIC TWOMEY
Sep 13, 2022
BRAVO!