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Your three minute devotional while your tucked into bed.
The feeding of the five thousand is the only miracle next to the resurrection that is retold in the four gospels. The interesting portion of John’s gospel is that it is the only gospel that mentions a boy. Now why is this important?
Most scholars say that the boy was likely following the crowd trying to sell off this delicious meal. Put yourselves in the shoes of the this boy who ends up giving his “lunch” (for lack of a better term) to Jesus.
This boy offers up his “lunch” to Jesus not really knowing who Jesus is or what He is going to do with it. He isn’t expecting anything, maybe money in return if in fact he is trying to sell these delicious meal. Now picture yourself in the shoes of that boy, your jaw dropping, feet frozen to the ground as you see your “lunch” being multiplied and multiplied and multiplied. You watch as the crowd draws closer together, murmuring about what is going on in the front.
Before long the crowd of five thousand (whom some scholars say is just the men, and does not account for women and children) is completely fed and the disciples bring back twelve baskets of leftovers. Following the leftovers the crowd starts to shout, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!”
What are you thinking? What are you feeling?
Jesus took all that this boy had, and used it to feed thousands. Did the boy know Jesus was going to do that? Not a chance.
I can see the boy immediately sprinting home to tell his family, of what Jesus had done. The news too great to keep to himself, welling up inside him like a spring of water.
God surprises us. If we give Him all we have, if we give Him our lives, He will surprise us in a way that we cannot keep it to ourselves. We have to run. We have to share.
Give God your lunch, and He will feed thousands.
Give God your life, and you will never be the same.
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