Why ask Me? You do it

But He said to them, "You give them something to eat."   Luke 9:13   NKJV

Jesus was with the disciples in a deserted place just outside of Bethsaida. The disciples had just returned from their Gospel Outreach and excitingly were telling Jesus all about it. As always, crowds gathered where Jesus was, even though He had taken them out privately. One would have felt that Jesus may have begrudged this, after-all, He wanted to spend this precious time with His friends. However, check v11: 'He (Jesus), received them and spoke to them about the Kingdom of God, and healed those who had need of healing.' The disciples were weary after their trip and needed to rest up but Jesus, would not push anyone away. And that's the way He has been with each one of us no matter how we may have let Him down at times.

He recognised, as the day was coming to a close, that they needed something to eat. The disciples were encouraging the people to go home and get some food. Bur Jesus said, 'You give them something to eat.' They began protesting about this and telling Jesus that they had no food. There were thousands of people there and the disciples began to panic about His order. They were flabbergasted. Max Lucardo gives a great picture of this:

'Rather than look to God, they looked in their wallets. "That would take eight months of a man's wages! Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it them to eat?"

                               Notes form The Lucardo Encouraging Word Bible.  Thomas Nelson

I want you to notice something here. Jesus always acted on faith, this was His whole life and He wanted them to do the same. They had just returned from a successful Gospel Outreach and had been telling Jesus all about how they had blessed people, healed them and told them about Jesus as they acted in faith. So how is it, when Jesus told them to feed these people, they had problems about it. They viewed this as a personal matter; they would have to buy the food for the multitudes. Jesus wanted them to do what He was about to and take the five loaves and two fish and turn them into a banquet. They looked at it as an impossible task - they were not viewing this through the eyes of faith, which is how they had been taught. This was a big lesson to them.

We are similar to this on many occasions; we read of great exploits in Christian literature and when we read our bibles but, we struggle to put these things into action. It is the same Jesus we follow; the same Holy Spirit and He asks us to do very similar things, so why do we struggle? We either believe the Word or we don't. 

Sorry if this sounds a little harsh but, you know it is the truth; we need to be doers of the Word and not hearers only James 1:22. 

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