PrintToday's "Moment with Mark" (48) - Resources
8 January, 2013
But Jesus said, "You feed them.""With what?" they asked. "It would take a small fortune to buy food for all this crowd!" "How much food do you have?" he asked. "Go and find out." (Mark 6:37-38 NLT)
Jesus asked a lot of questions. He already knew the answer to most of them (but not all). Some of those questions were general day-to-day issues. This one is not in that category. Yet it was a question that would expose lack of faith and reveal how readily we turn to a secular mindset to resolve spiritual situations.
"How much food do you have?"
In a sense this is an obvious, practical question. For the disciples, this is a question that confronts them and their very limited resources!! How would we answer that question? If we transferred it to the spiritual realm and thought in terms of meeting the spiritual hunger of the crowd with the bread of life, what would we say in the light of that question?
I fear that most of us are unaware of "how much food we have". We have been doing so much with so little for so long that we seem to be unaware of the full schedule of God's resources to meet needs on a scale that we would never have thought possible. We have more to give to a dying world than many of our Ministers, Pastors and Priests have ever experienced themselves or led us to believe.
Now, to those who answer His question with a "I don't know", Jesus issues a directive, "Go and find out!" How do we do that? We need to spend time away with fellow disciples and wait on the Lord for Him to reveal to us the width, the height, the breadth and the length of Kingdom resources He has provided.
"How much food do you have?" he asked. "Go and find out."
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