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Then Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up. “There’s a young boy here with five barley loaves and two fish. But what good is that with this huge crowd?” —John 6:8-9
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More than five thousand people are famished after experiencing a day revival with Jesus. The disciples see trouble. Jesus sees truth. He is going to make a way for them to see it too.
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Pieces of food.
In this epic gathering, a few people may have brought some food. But only one lone person comes forward. One young boy brings his meal to the disciples. Common fish that is commonly caught. Barley loaves that budget-minded families consume. Pieces of food that become provisions of faith for all who come on that day. Simple meal. Supernatural means.
Out of this enormous crowd, eternity arises. What we take to God.
He transitions into more.
He turns into more than before.
He transforms more than our hearts and hands can store.
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Pieces of our lives.
This young boy undertakes the first step that alters, and then shatters the trajectory of scarcity. The first foot forward of faith. He has no idea what Jesus will do with this initial step, but he trusts Jesus can do immeasurably more than he can. When we give away all of our little, Jesus lifts our lack and launches it above our expectation and imagination.
Plans in our life we weigh. Take it to God.
Priorities in our life we waver. Take it to God.
People in our life we wrestle. Take it to God.
Pursuits in our life we waste. Take it to God.
Pieces of our life we weep. Take it to God.
Critics may ask what good is your gift offering? God makes good all that we give for His kingdom good. As we see in this story, in His plan, His good becomes grand.
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Pieces of truth.
In our physical need, God also prepares to meet our spiritual needs.
In our physical hunger, God also provides for our spiritual hunger.
Jesus addresses not only the humanity of our hunger pangs, but He answers deep within our desire for survival in the spiritual. The thirst for the things of God is often more urgent to be quenched than the needs of the flesh. Yet our God does not answer the pleas of one and abort the petitions of the other. When we come empty, God fills us in the spirit and in the physical. He filters food to grow the soul and the body.
All who are present that day find themselves filled and fulfilled. The lost, lonely, and looking descend upon Jesus searching for pieces of truth. They depart stronger and strengthened in the provisions of truth.
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Pieces of faith.
Faith reflects all that we hope for, the hopeful things not seen. In the hands of a big God, small pieces of faith can be rearranged to edit the ending so we can enter into His grand plan. This young boy’s small step of faith is the big catalyst for the unveiling of the divine from the common. Faith reveals the bigness of God beyond what our scarcity can see in the flesh…..and what eternity can elevate in our engagement.
All we give to God flies further and flows farther than if we were to grip it with firm fingers. When scarcity turns up. Take it to God and see eternity arise.
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In our need, Jesus nourishes
He fights for our faith to flourish
He transforms what our gift consists
To the world it may seem foolish
What good is a few pieces of fish?
But Jesus takes what we relinquish
From the divine, He replenishes.
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©️2020 Jordan Su