SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/25/2016 10:51 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
The Faithless Disciples
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: John 6:5-9
Message of the verses: “5 Therefore Jesus, lifting up His eyes and seeing that a large
crowd was coming to Him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, so
that these may eat?" 6 This
He was saying to test him, for He Himself knew what He was intending to
do. 7 Philip answered Him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not
sufficient for them, for everyone to receive a little." 8 One of His
disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him, 9 “There is a lad here
who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these for so many
people?"”
We have
mentioned that Jesus may have had a little time to spend with His disciples
before the crowds came to Him. In the Synoptic
gospels we read that Jesus first took time to heal some of those who were in
need of healing. We know that Jesus is a
compassionate God and His compassion surely was on display at this time for we
know that His heart was sad over the death of John the Baptist, and that His
disciples were also tired after ministering for a while to people in Israel,
but nonetheless Jesus took time to meet the physical needs of those who were in
need. At this point I want to write
something that I promised I would do when the time came, and not the time has
come. As mentioned Jesus sent His
disciples out two by two to minister to the people of Israel and they came back
telling of great success with their ministries. Now Jesus asks Philip how they were going to
feed all of these people and he had no answer.
These disciples had performed many miracles on their “missions’ trip”
and all I can say is that they had forgotten all about what they were able to
do when Jesus sent them out. I cannot be
too hard on them for not relying on the resource that they knew that they had
for I will have to admit that when trouble comes to me that on many occasions I
try first of all to solve it by myself and when I figure I can’t solve the
problem I then turn to the Lord in prayer when I first should turn to Him in
prayer.
Jesus knew
what He was intending to do but first gave the disciples a chance to solve this
problem and next we see that Andrew comes up to Jesus with a boy who had a
small lunch that he had brought with Him.
We can say that little in the hands of Jesus were enough for Him to feed
some 20,000 plus people. I can imagine
that this boy never forgot what the Lord had done with his small lunch. Think about receiving a meal of fish that had
never been in the water, and bread that had never grown up as grain, but just
became bread. Can you imagine what the
enemies of Jesus were thinking about the power He had as if He had wanted to
make an army of people if they died He could raise them from the dead and also
no one would have to bring food for He would provide it like He did here. I am sure that this frightened some of the
enemies of Jesus to see this as perhaps all of His miracles had done.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I desire to have the love for people that my
Lord showed here and many other places in the gospels. In order to love the Lord I need to have love
for others like He does.
My Steps of Faith for
today: When things come where I know I need help
with I want to first of all pray to the Lord before trying to do it myself.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible question: “God” (Romans2:11).
Today’s Bible question:
“The Pharisees criticized Jesus for eating with what people?”
Answer in our next SD.
3/25/2016 11:27 AM
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