SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/12/2022 8:11 AM
My Worship Time
Focus: PT-2
“The Dullness of Perspective”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew 14:15-17
Message of the verses: “15 And when it was evening, the disciples came to
Him, saying, "The place is desolate, and the time is already past; so send
the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages and buy food for
themselves."16 But Jesus said to them, "They do not need to go away;
you give them something to eat!" 17 And they said to Him, "We
have here only five loaves and two fish.’”
We find out again from John’s gospel report that
Andrew had discovered that a young boy had brought his lunch consisting of five
loaves and two fish.” It is very
possible that the Lord let Philip and Andrew to continue to think about His
request during the rest of the day, while He was healing the multitudes and
while he also was “Speaking to them about the kingdom of God” as seen in Luke
9:11). Jesus provided a daylong test of
the disciple’s faith.
John
MacArthur writes “As we look back on the scene from our two-thousand-year
advantage point, it seems impossible that even when Jesus said to them, ‘They
do not need to go away, you give them something to eat!’ the idea of His
feeding the people miraculously did not enter the disciples’ minds. Seeing no further than their own resources,
they replied, We have here only five loaves and two fish. It would seem to have required so little
faith and to have been so natural for the disciples to expect Jesus to feed the
crowd. But they were like a person who
stands in front of Niagara Falls and asks where he can find a drink. They were face-to-face with the supreme power
in the universe and yet were spiritually blind.
They knew it, but they did not know it.
Had anyone asked them if Jesus could do such a thing, their answer would
have been an unhesitating and unanimous, ‘Of course He can!’ But even when prompted by Jesus’ suggestion,
they saw their own lack instead of His sufficiency.”
As
we as believer’s read over this story perhaps we find ourselves believing
without a shadow of doubt that Jesus would have no problem in feeding this very
large group of hungry people as we have also read about Him turning water into
wine and healing every sort of disease, so our faith would be totally in Him to do this seemingly
impossible task. MacArthur adds “Yet,
how many times has every believer faced a crisis that seemed overwhelming and insurmountable
and failed to consider the Lord’s power?
“Despite
two years of walking with the Lord, hearing Him teach of God’s truth and seeing
Him demonstrate miraculous power, the Twelve were too spiritually dull to see
the obvious. They were looking only with
their human eyes and only at human resources.”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I am thinking of the problem that Paul had
after going to heaven and seeing things that men were not suppose to see. Paul was given a thorn in the flesh and asked
the Lord three times to take it away, and the Lord said to Him “My grace is
sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness." Most gladly,
therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ
may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults,
with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for
when I am weak, then I am strong.” My
point is that we cannot put the Lord in a box and believe that He has to do
what we want Him to do for us, but to trust Him to do the best thing for us
even though we don’t always understand it.
My Steps of Faith for Today: I desire to trust the Lord to do the best for
me, and the grace to accept that best thing He is doing for me.
6/12/2022 8:37 AM
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