Dr. W's Reflections...
Don’t forget–our Annual Thanksgiving Dinner is this coming Sunday! As we gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing, let us be filled with the spirit of our Lord’s selfless, sacrificial love. And may our trust in Christ be turned into gratitudes for Christ.
We have been blessed to be a blessing! The life we share together as a church family is special, because the life we share together as a church family has been made sacred by God. And so, let’s keep praying: “Lord, send people to us, and send us to people.”
The Lord be with you,
Wyatt
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JESUS FEEDS THE GREAT CROWD (John 6:1-14)
“Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many.”
Aside from the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead, the story of Jesus feeding the great crowd is the only miracle performed by Jesus that is recorded in all four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John). And since this miracle shows up in all four Gospels, it has become not only one of the more familiar miracles that Jesus performed, but this miracle of how Jesus took a little boy’s lunch and turned it into an all-you-can-eat buffet continues to serve as a present word of blessing and ongoing message of encouragement for all those who place their trust in Jesus.
Above all–this miracle shows us how God can do a lot with just a little. "Five small barley loaves” and “two small fish” startle us once again today with the realization that God can “...do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine” according to His “power” that is at work within us (Eph 3:20). “Five small barley loaves” and “two small fish” confront us once again today with the spiritual awareness that whatever we have to offer God–even when it consists of pintsized expectations and meager resources–is always enough to serve the purposes of God. “Five small barley loaves” and “two small fish” remind us once again today that “God is able to make all grace abound” to us, so that in “all things,” having all that we need, we can abound in every “good work” for Him (2 Cor 9:8).