SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/14/2022 10:22 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 “The
Display of Power”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Matt 14:18-21
Message of the verses: “18 To which Jesus
replied, "Bring them here to me." 19 He told the crowd to sit down on
the grass. Then He took the five loaves and the two fish in His hands, and,
looking up to Heaven, He thanked God, broke the loaves and passed them to his
disciples who handed them to the crowd. 20 Everybody ate and was satisfied.
Afterwards they collected twelve baskets full of the pieces which were left
over. 21 Those who ate numbered about five thousand men, apart from the women
and children” (Philips).
We pick up the story this morning by looking at the
Lord broke “the loaves” and “gave them to the disciples,” who, in turn, “gave
to the multitudes, and they all ate” (NASB).
I cannot be sure on how this miracle, worked perhaps it was like when Elijah
continued to get oil each day, as the oil kept coming, and so that is perhaps
how the loaves and fish just kept coming as the Lord passed them to His
Disciples to pass out to the people. As
for how long this took, I cannot be sure but it had to take a while for some
25,000 people to be fed. MacArthur adds “There
was no fanfare and no dramatic change from little to much. The miracle was all but invisible, its
magnitude being evident only as the thousands of people ‘all ate.’
“Chorazo (to be satisfied) was used of
animals who stayed at the feed trough until they wanted nothing more to
eat. Jesus uses the same term in the
Beatitudes when He promises that those who hunger and thirst for righteousness ‘shall
be satisfied’ (Matt. 5:6). Because the
multiplied barley loaves and fish were divinely created, the satisfaction the
people experienced must have been like no other in their lives. This food was perfect, not tainted by the
fall and its consequent corruption of all the earth through sin.” Perhaps MacArthur is saying that these people
did not have to add anything to this food, nor would they need to take any
vitamins because it was perfect, and the taste must have been out of this
world.
Afterwards
they collected twelve baskets full shows us the there was more than enough food
to go around, enough food to satisfy all who ate. So after the food was distributed it looks
like that each disciple had a basked of food left over, something that they
then could share with Jesus. “In the
great economy of God, there was neither too little nor too much.” In the other miracle that Jesus feed 4000 the
baskes of food left over were large baskets like the one that Saul (Paul) was
let down in, in order to escape at Damascus.
Now
we have already noted the fact that those who ate numbered about five thousand
men, apart from the women and children so also as mentioned there could have
been at least 25,000 people there who ate.
Matthew
is not the one who mentions that after this miracle happened that the people
were ready to make Jesus their King.
John 6:15 tells us “So Jesus, perceiving that they were intending to
come and take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain by
Himself alone. Jesus was a Man who could
not only heal everyone’s diseases, bring the dead back to life and feed the
people as demonstrated in this great miracle, but they thought that He could
defeat the Romans and get them out of the yoke of bondage that they were
in. The problem is that they did not
realize that what they truly needed was a Savior who could save them from a
bigger enemy, and that enemy was sin, and enemy we all face, and even continue
to face after we are born-again. Jesus
declared in John 18:36 His Kingdom is not of this world.”
I will give a short introduction of what we will be
looking at for the next few days as I end this SD. “The great multitude that day was composed of
three groups: the twelve disciples, the believing remnant among the multitudes,
and the vast majority of unbelievers. In
regard to each group we can discern many spiritual lessons.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I am thankful that the Lord did not give into
being the kind of King that this group of people wanted Him to be, but when He
comes again that will be that kind of King as He will destroy the armies who
are fighting in the battle of Armageddon.
I am so very thankful that He came to die for my sins and to continue to
mediate for me now in heaven.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Trust the Lord after putting my Spiritual
Armor on to cause me to stand against the spiritual foes that war against
me. To remember that when Jesus died,
that I died, but still have the flesh to cause me to fall into sin, and that is
another reason I need the Armor on.
6/14/2022 11:02 AM
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