More Than Enough

I went to my blog page to edit yesterdays writing on Matthew 14:13-21.  The story of Jesus feeding the five thousand.

It was gone!  

No where to be found.P()&$%$$*^%#@^&

I am not sure if I can redo the information that was in my brain yesterday.

I know I talked about how God uses small things to create abundance. 

Yet this a story is about much more than a huge amount of food that came from five loaves and two fish. With left overs to eat later.

This is a manifestation of God’s glory in spades.  

In front of five thousand men, plus women and children, Jesus make God’s power visible for all to see.

The key statement in this story is: ‘We have nothing here but five loaves and two fish.’

“We have nothing.”

Think about how often we hear that kind of statement.  

A statement that assumes we don’t have enough.  

Enough money, 

      enough food, 

          enough time, 

               enough ability,

                      enough strength, 

                                               and the list goes on.

This is a pointed story about how God takes what we think we don’t have, enough, and makes us more than enough.

It is a story about an abundant God.  

A God who can make something wonderful out of something seemly not so wonderful.

It is also about trust, yes trust.

Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. ²⁰And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full.

Jesus puts the merger amount of food — five loaves and two fish — in God’s hands.  And five thousand men, plus women and children.  

And, there were left overs. 

What does that tell us?

13 Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns. ¹⁴When he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them and cured their sick. ¹⁵When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, ‘This is a deserted place, and the hour is now late; send the crowds away so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.’ ¹⁶Jesus said to them, ‘They need not go away; you give them something to eat.’ ¹⁷They replied, ‘We have nothing here but five loaves and two fish.’ ¹⁸And he said, ‘Bring them here to me.’ ¹⁹Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. ²⁰And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full. ²¹And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.(Matt. 14)