You feed them

Have you ever been hungry?
The Bible tells the story of a large group of people who journey to a remote location to hear Jesus teach. They sit and listen to Him all day. It becomes late in the day and no one has even stopped for any food. The disciples start complaining that everyone is hungry, suggesting that Jesus should stop talking so the people can go and buy some food.

Jesus turns to the disciples and says, “You feed them”.
The disciples miss the point, they start to calculate the cost in time and wages that it would take to get food for over 5000 people. Jesus asks them to see what food there is within the group of people. The disciples find 5 small loaves and 2 fish.
Jesus prays, breaks the bread and the fish and gives it to the disciples to hand out to everyone. The disciples start to pass out the food to everyone, and they don’t run out. When everyone was full, they collect up twelve baskets of leftovers. Interesting that there are twelve disciples, and each had a basket of leftovers.

Do we ever ask Jesus what he is doing about the hungry, the sick, the broken hearted who are in our communities? What are we doing? Jesus asks us to act while we wait for Him to come back.
What can you do for others today?

Have a good week, 

Chaplain Phil