Be Still And Know

Mark 6:37 Jesus said, “You feed them.” “With what?” they asked. “We’d have to work for months to earn enough moneyto buy food for all these people!” The feeding of the 5,000 was a spectacular miracle, but Jesus didn’t rush into performing it. First of all, he challenged the disciples with a blunt command: “You feed them.” Just imagine what it would have been like to have been one of the disciples! Suddenly they have got to come up with an answer. They started thinking through the implications and quickly calculated that they would need to work for a long time to earn enough to feed such a huge crowd. They were firmly convinced that Jesus’ challenge was impossible. The problem was that they were thinking in purely human terms. Jesus was trying to help them to think beyond the normal limitations of life. Their response was entirely reasonable, but it didn’t take account of God. It left no room for miracles. As disciples of Jesus, they needed to stop thinking in purely practical terms and start seeing things fro