Then Jesus
lifted up His eyes, and seeing a great multitude coming toward Him, He said to
Philip, "Where shall we buy bread, that these may eat?" (John 6:5 NKJV)
Notice that
little pronoun we! As our Lord stood face to face with the vast crowd of hungry
people, He might have said to His disciples, "What are you going to
do?" He might have told them some way of meeting their hunger and
weariness. Instead of that, He identified Himself with them, saying, How shall
we do it? Isn’t that His way still? He knows the needs of the world of men, but
He calls us into fellowship with Himself with respect to them, saying, this is
a matter not for Me alone, not for you alone, but for us together. "I am the vine, ye are the branches."
While our
Lord talked about buying bread, "He knew what He would do." Before
His eye was the entire plan of the meal, of which He would be the host, but He
spoke of buying, that He might see what they would suggest, whether they would
turn to Him in simple faith, or begin to meet the need according to their own
ideas. They took the latter course. It is almost always the case, that when we
are face to face with some emergency, we begin to calculate our ways and means.
When we are tested, we take out pencils and paper, and begin to count up our
resources, as the disciples did when they said: Two hundred denarii of bread is
not enough, that every one may take a little!
Then it was
that Andrew thought of the little boy, whom he had seen in the course of the
day. How proud and pleased the boy would be when they told him that Jesus
wanted his little lunch. He gladly gave it up at the call of that voice which
had thrilled him with its accent.
How can we
serve Christ, and what have we to give Him? Five tiny loaves and two small
fishes do not look like much in themselves, but He will take the poorest and
simplest things, and make wonderful use of them for His glory and the blessing
of men. It is wonderful how much Jesus will do with our lives, if we will only
put them into His dear hands. If you have no great gift to offer Him, you can
bring the special power of doing one thing best, which every one possesses, and
He will use you to arrange the people in an orderly way, and to carry around
the bread and water of the gospel message, offering it without money and
without price.
PRAYER
Take my
life, and let it be
Consecrated,
Lord, to Thee.
In Christ’s
name I pray,
AMEN.
God's Daily Promise
Promise
#185:
I am a father to the fatherless and I defend the cause of widows.
Psalm 68:5 (WEB)
A father of the fatherless,
and a defender of the widows,
is God in his holy habitation.
I am a father to the fatherless and I defend the cause of widows.
Psalm 68:5 (WEB)
A father of the fatherless,
and a defender of the widows,
is God in his holy habitation.
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