My 2025 Theme Verses: Ezra 7:10 (ESV) For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel. Daniel 1:8 (ESV) But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king’s food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Have you ever been asked to do too much with too little? Luke 9-10
Have you ever been asked to do some seemingly impossible task with less than enough resources? Typically, like the disciples are asked here, God asks us to the impossible. Look at Luke 9:13 when they were asks to feed the 5,000. At least from our vantage point it looks impossible. From our vision we can only see the problem. We can only see 5,000 mouths to feed and tummies to fill. We can only see the challenge. We tend to look a the physical limits we have. The disciples, like us, used their normal way of thinking to solve the problem. Who has enough food, with them, to feed this many people? The good news is that someone at least took inventory and found that has some bread and fishes. I often wonder if this little lunch a boy brought was all that was in the crowd? In our modern day approach to solving this problem we would have put together a committee to study the reason the crowd was hungry and what policy we could enact to make sure their lack of physical provisions was cared for in the future. The Food and Beverage Committee, in the future, would be sending out a notice of the upcoming, "Pot-Luck," to make sure all the bases were covered; and then ordered extra meat "just in case." God doesn't work that way. Christ wanted them to realize He is the bread of life. He will provide what we need, both physically and spiritually. No committee, just Christ. No normal thinking, just Christ's thinking. No typically resources, just Christ stretchng and making a miracle out of the normal and natural resources. To heal the blind man He used the mud. To feed the Israelites He used the wind to blow in quail. To feed the widow He stretched the oil in one little bottle for months. God doesn't view the problem, He views the solution. Yes, it is tough to do things with limited resources. It almost feels impossible. However, with God, is there really "limited" resources? Or, is it limited faith?
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