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Mark 6:35-44
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.
36 Send the people away so they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat."
37 But he answered, "You give them something to eat." They said to him, "That would take eight months of a man's wages ! Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat?"
38 "How many loaves do you have?" he asked. "Go and see." When they found out, they said, "Five--and two fish."
39 Then Jesus directed them to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass.
40 So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties.
41 Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to his disciples to set before the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.
42 They all ate and were satisfied,
43 and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish.
44 The number of the men who had eaten was five thousand.
Jesus was evangelizing with his disciples. These disciples left everything behind when they decided to follow Jesus. They listened constantly to Jesus teachings, they witnessed the great miracles he has done and even taken part in those miracles.
Here we see a large crowd was listening to Jesus. They were so eager that they ignored the time and place. When the disciples notices how famished they are, they suggested to Jesus that the crowd may go back, eat, get strengthened and come back. To their wonder, Jesus gave them the responsibility of giving them food.
The disciples are in big trouble now, because it would take them a large sum of money. Jesus came to their rescue from the predicament, but he did demand what they have in their hand. Now the disciples might be dealing with a lot of questions in their heart, but they decided to obey Jesus than to listen to their heart. Once they gave the little they had, they were filled, the large crowd was satisfied and there were 12 basketfuls of loaves remaining for them.
We will be able to see great things happening in our life, in our work, and in our family - when we decide to give to Jesus the little we have. What we have will not be enough for us, usually. But God can work it out for many aplenty. Our trust in God will grow, our faith will increase and there will be joy and peace tiding in our life.
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