Going hungry in a bread store...

Do you know any plumbers? Electricians? Chefs? I've heard it said that a plumbers pipes are always clogged. The thinking is that people in these professions work all day on other people's problems they don't want to deal with the same stuff at home. So, who does an electrician call when he needs a new light? Who does the cooking in the home of a chef?

In Mark 8 there is the story of how Jesus fed the 4,000 men (+ women and children). Now, it's important to remember that Jesus has already fed the 5,000 so this is a slightly smaller miracle. Just as in the first case Jesus asks the disciples about feeding the people and immediately the disciples start thinking in human terms. It would take a year's wages to feed this many people, they said of feeding the 5,000. This time they say they can't supply this need because they are too far away from any town. There's no where to get enough food. The first time it was about money, this time the money may have been there (Judas kept the money and he was a penny pincher!) but they claim they can't feed them because of geography, we're just too far from any town. The disciples have the baker with them but are going hungry.

Once again Jesus takes what they have (a few loaves of bread and a couple fish) and performs a miracle of multiplication so that everyone eats and they have leftovers.
Why didn't they simply say, "well, Jesus, you fed the 5,000 with just a few loaves, we'll find what we can and You pray and we'll feed the people - just like before." Instead they immediately look to human means to meet the need.

It seems to me that if you're friends with the Life Giver, Bread Maker, Water Walker, Storm Calmer and Disease Healer why look anywhere else!

So it's confession time for me... I'm terrible at this! I tend to look for human means to meet spiritual needs; church growth, leadership, finances, resources, instead of immediately going to the Church Grower, Servant Leader, Land Owner, People Maker!

The moral is this, Jesus is all we need. He's the answer to every problem, the supply for every need.