Tuesday, March 16
Mark 8: 1-10
Does it seem to you that there is an awful lot that needs doing? Tending to mundane daily tasks, performing our jobs well, rearing our children, participating in church life, providing for the needy and the afflicted, etc., etc., etc. -- how can we possibly get it all done?
The feeding of the four thousand is a glorious demonstration of Jesus' compassion for His people and, of course, His unlimited and divine abilities. Yet it is also important instruction for us on how to accomplish the work He gives us to do. We must do it through Him.
Our own schemes and efforts, no matter how brilliant or well intentioned, can never be more than seven loaves and a few small fish. It is only when we give them to Jesus to be blessed and broken that they will be sufficient.
Elizabeth Puckett