John 6:12. When they were satisfied, [Jesus] told his
disciples, “Gather up the fragments left over, so that nothing may be lost.”
LEFTOVERS! WHAT! 5 loaves of
bread and 2 fishes for 5000 people and you’re asking us to gather leftovers!
So many of us think of this
Bread & Fishes story as a miracle, as though Jesus magically created food
out of thin air to feed to the masses, so much food in fact that there were
LEFTOVERS. A miracle, right?
Wrong. We’re not talking about
magically appearing “food” here are we? We’re talking about God’s ability to
fill people with “spiritual food,” bountiful amounts of spiritual food that
leads to satisfaction with leftovers.
Can’t you just close your eyes
and see the disciples panicking about the logistics of feeding the masses. And
yet we clearly sense that Jesus was entirely collected, not worried in the
least. Was Jesus the only one present that day who was capable of completely
trusting in God’s ability to provide?
Are we capable of this kind of
trust? Do we honestly trust in God ability to provide for us. Can we eat up the
lord’s word until we’re so satisfied that we have leftovers to share? “Take,
eat … drink this all of you…” his offering of food and/or spiritual food is
made to us in mass every single Sunday and there is always enough, right? I
don’t know about you, but I venture out of the parking lot on Sunday completely
satisfied with both food and spiritual substance. Enough in fact that I’m ready
to share with family and friends (leftovers).
Take, eat, drink this all of
you and lose yourselves in what has been provided to us. In fact, “Gather up
the fragments left over, so that nothing may be lost.”
—Michelle
Jewell
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