just a thought

Matthew 15

29 Jesus returned to the Sea of Galilee and climbed a hill and sat down.

30 A vast crowd brought to him people who were lame, blind, crippled, those who couldn't speak, and many others.

They laid them before Jesus, and he healed them all.

31 The crowd was amazed!

Those who hadn't been able to speak were talking,

the crippled were made well,

the lame were walking,

and the blind could see again!

And they praised the God of Israel.

32 Then Jesus called his disciples and told them,

"I feel sorry for these people.

They have been here with me for three days, and they have nothing left to eat.

I don't want to send them away hungry, or they will faint along the way."
  

33 The disciples replied,

"Where would we get enough food here in the wilderness for such a huge crowd?"
  

34 Jesus asked, "How much bread do you have?"

  They replied, "Seven loaves, and a few small fish."

  35 So Jesus told all the people to sit down on the ground.

36 Then he took the seven loaves and the fish, thanked God for them, and broke them into pieces.

He gave them to the disciples, who distributed the food to the crowd.

  37 They all ate as much as they wanted.

Afterward, the disciples picked up seven large baskets of leftover food.

38 There were 4,000 men who were fed that day, in addition to all the women and children.

39 Then Jesus sent the people home, and he got into a boat and crossed over to the region of Magadan.

I have always found it fascinating that in Matthew 14, Jesus feeds an enormous group of people.

Then in Matthew 15, He does it again!

We don't know what the time frame was between these 2 events, but it couldn't have been very long – anywhere from a few days to a couple or 3 weeks.

Whatever is the case, the thing I find fascinating is that at the beginning of the 2^nd feeding in Matthew 15, the disciples are just as clueless about how to feed a large group of people as they were the 1^st time in Matthew 14.

Wouldn't it make sense that if you or I or the disciples saw Jesus feed that huge group of people in Matthew 14, that when the situation presented itself again, & Jesus asked what we thought we should do, we'd all say, “Yo! Jesus! Do that thing you did the other day & feed these people!”?

But before we throw the disciple under the bus for having so little faith, consider this...

How many times have each of us had God come through for us in some situation?

I'm talking about coming through for us in such a way that it is obvious that He's the One who made things happen, not us.

And yet, when something comes along that we know we can't do anything about, how many of us STILL don't trust God enough to walk in faith that if He brought us through something before, He'll do it again?

Yeah...

Think about that today...