MORNING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/14/2026
10:14 AM
My Worship
Time Focus: PT-2 “The Need for Daily Food”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference:
Luke
9:12-17a
Message of the verses: “12 Now the day was
ending, and the twelve came and said to Him, “Send the crowd away, that they
may go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging and get
something to eat; for here we are in a desolate place.” 13 But
He said to them, “You give them something to eat!” And they said, “We
have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless perhaps we go and buy food
for all these people.” 14 (For there were about five thousand
men.) And He said to His disciples, “Have them sit down to eat in groups
of about fifty each.” 15 They did so, and had them all sit
down. 16 Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and
looking up to heaven, He blessed them, and broke them, and kept giving them
to the disciples to set before the people. 17 And they all ate
and were satisfied;” (Luke 9:12-17a)
I began this section in last evening’s
SD, and I did something that I don’t usually do and that is end my SD in the
middle of a paragraph so I will pick up quoting where I left of from MacArthur’s
commentary.
“Incredibly,
even after this amazing display of Christ’s divine power, the apostles’ faith
was still weak. While Jesus, Peter,
James, and John were on the mountain for the transfiguration, the nine who had
not accompanied them were unable to cast out a demon because they failed to
pray in faith (Luke 9:37-40).”
(Luke 9:37-40)
37 ¶ On the next day, when they had come down from
the mountain, a great crowd met him. 38
And behold, a man from the crowd cried out, "Teacher, I beg you to
look at my son, for he is my only child. 39
And behold, a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out. It convulses
him so that he foams at the mouth, and shatters him, and will hardly leave him.
40 And I begged your disciples to cast
it out, but they could not.’”
“Exasperated
by their continual lack of faith, Jesus sharply rebuked them, calling them an ‘unbelieving
and perverted generation’ (cf. Matt. 17:17).”
(cf. Matt. 17:17)
“17 And Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted
generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring
him here to me.”
“Rather
than trust, Jesus to deal with the obvious need for food, the apostles thought
only of a human solution.
“Jesus’ response, “You give them
something to eat!” , seemingly detached from reality, must have amazed and surprised
them. Incredulously they protested, “We
have no more than five loaves and two fish.
Andrew, anticipating the problem, had taken an inventory of what meager
food the crowd possessed (John 6:8-9).”
(John 6:8-9)
“8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s
brother, said to him, 9 “There is a boy here
who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?”
Then
somewhat sarcastically the apostles added , ‘unless perhaps we go and buy
food for all these people.’ Perhaps
playing off their remark, the Lord asked Philip, ‘”Where are we to buy bread,
so that these may eat?’ (John 6:5).
Aghast, “Philip answered Him, ‘Two hundred denarii (nearly a year’s pay
for a common laborer) worth of bread is not sufficient for them, for everyone
to receive little’’(v. 7). As Luke’s
parenthetical note indicates, there were about five thousand men present. The five loaves (small biscuits or
crackers) and two small dried fish were obviously intended as a
protest if not a mockery of the Lord’s request.
“Their amazement must have turned to
complete shock when the Lord commanded the apostles to have them sit down to
eat in groups of about fifty each.’ Mark
6:40 notes that they ‘sat down in groups of hundreds and of fifties.’ Organizing the crowd like that would have
made it easier to serve them. But the
obvious question that would have arisen is, ‘Serve them what?’ The apostles had just finished telling Jesus
that they had nothing with which to feed them.
“Despite their misgivings, the
disciples obeyed the Lord and had the people all sit down. It was spring, just before Passover (John
6:4), and as previously noted there was plenty of green grass for the people to
sit comfortably on.”
(John 6:4)
“4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was
at hand.”
“When all
were seated, the Lord took the five loaves and the two fish, and then
doing what every Jewish father did at a meal, looking up to heaven, He
blessed them. By looking up to
heaven, Jesus acknowledged God as the source of all provision. There was nothing mystical or spiritual that
happened to the food by the Lord’s blessing; eulogeo (blessed)
simply means that He gave thanks to God.
“Then, also doing what a father
would do at a meal, Jesus broke the loaves and fish. But unlike any father had ever done, He dept
giving them to the disciples to set before the people. In that understated way Luke described
this astonishing display of Christ’s power to create ex nihilo—the same
power He used to create all things from nothing (John 1:3; Col. 1:16; Heb.
1:2).”
(John 1:3; Col. 1:16; Heb. 1:2)
“3 All things were made through him, and without
him was not any thing made that was made.”
“16 For by him all things were created, in heaven
and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or
authorities—all things were created through him and for him.”
“2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by
his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created
the world.”
“There was
no doubt as to the source of the food; it was obvious to all who saw that it
was being created in the Lord’s hands and then given to the apostles to
distribute to the crowd.
“The people did not merely receive a
minimal snack, but in keeping with God’s bountiful grace, they all ate and
were satisfied. Satisfied translates a form of the verb chortazo,
which was originally used to describe fattening animals, who gorged themselves
until they could not eat no more (it is so used in Rev. 19:21). The people ate their fill until the were
satiated.
(Rev. 19:21)
“21 And the rest were slain by the sword that came
from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse, and all the birds were
gorged with their flesh.”
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: Trust the Lord to give me what I
need when I need it, even though at times to me it seems to come late, but that
is where faith has to be involved.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: Trust the Lord to give wisdom to
those that are helping me to get my blood pressure down as it has been way too
high even after taking the medicine given to my by my doctors.
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