Mark 6:35 By this time it was late in the day, so his disciples came to him. “This is a remote place,” they said, “and it’s already very late.
Sometimes I am so like the disciples, so literal, so practical, so blind. I could see myself, doing the calculations, realizing it will be time to eat soon, “Oh, we need to let them go get food. We certainly don’t have food to feed them.” And then Jesus says, ”You give them something to eat.”
Mark 6:36 Send the people away so that they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”
I would have balked–”What in the world are we going to feed them? Do you *see* how many people there are?!?” But Jesus is teaching them a lesson–in what? Trust? Provision? His goodness? He feeds five thousand men plus women and children. I wonder what the disciples were feeling afterward. Joy? Incredulity? Relief?
Mark 6:37 But he answered, “You give them something to eat.” They said to him, “That would take more than half a year’s wages! Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat?”
Lord, Learning to think as You think is hard. I am concrete and practical. I tend to think in very concrete, practical ways. But You think with love, mercy, and compassion. You see a way where I see no way. Thank You for Your perception and sovereignty. Help me to follow Your lead. Amen.
Mark 6:38 “How many loaves do you have?” he asked. “Go and see.” When they found out, they said, “Five—and two fish.”
Have a blessed day.