"But He answered, 'You give them something to eat.'" Mark
6:37a
Has anyone ever asked you to do
something that seems totally ridiculous? The very suggestion of their
instruction may have brought laughter or even anger for proposing the idea.
I imagine that the disciples may
have felt this way when Jesus responded with this comment when they asked him
how they were going to feed the 5000, who had stayed around to hear him speak.
The disciples suggested a logical answer to the problem, "Send the people
away so they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy
themselves something to eat" (Mk 6:36).
That wasn't the answer Jesus wanted.
He saw the need of the people. He had compassion on them. He wanted to solve
the problem with a Kingdom response, not logic. He asked them what they had in
their hand.
So often what we already have in our
hand is what Jesus wants us to use to solve our problems. We must add faith to
what we already have in our hand. Then we will see the gospel of the Kingdom
manifested to solve problems in a supernatural way. Jesus wanted to meet a need
in which God would receive the glory. Sending the people away did not meet the
need, nor did it bring glory to the Father.
Do not settle for the gospel of
salvation only. Jesus came that we might experience the gospel of the Kingdom
in its fullest sense. Our job is to look past our logical reasoning and see how
God might want to solve our problem in a supernatural way.
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