Unlimited: Jesus & The Hungry Crowds
Apr 12, 2024 1293
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. Send the people away so that they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”
But he answered, “You give them something to eat” (Mark 6:35–37, NIV).
It’s late in the day. Jesus taught the large crowd all day, and the disciples thought they had a problem.
What do they do? They come to Jesus for him to solve it for them!
While Jesus taught the people spiritual truths, the disciples worried about material things.
The Disciples, Jesus & The Hungry Crowds
There are thousands of people in that huge crowd, and the disciples are probably tired and hungry, but the crowds don’t want to go. So, the disciples came to Jesus and asked him to call it a day, stop teaching, and send the people away so they could get dinner.
But the reality is that the disciples don’t have a problem at all. Because it’s Jesus, God himself, who is teaching and in charge, and if Jesus wants to keep teaching, so be it. He can supply the people’s needs at the right time. And he gave the people what they needed most: his teachings.
But the disciples don’t see that. They think they have a problem because they think they know best and that, at some level, they are in charge.
So, Jesus says to them, “Well, if you think there’s a problem, you fix it.”
And that was something that wasn’t going to work!
Too often, we think there’s a problem when there isn’t because Jesus is still in control.
And Jesus lets us try to fix it to help us understand that we must depend on him.
It’s one of the hardest lessons to learn.
– Eliezer Gonzalez
Eli’s Reflection: What’s a difficult area in your life right now? Are you willing to let go and trust in Jesus? He’s in control in your life just as he was in these verses.
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