Five Loaves and Two Fish
I haven’t blogged in quite a while. Whether it was because I didn’t have anything to say or because I just wasn’t listening to that still small voice, I don’t know. But if I had to take a guess I would say that it was the latter. The only weaknesses come from me not from Him. I don’t believe that he ever stops speaking to us, I just think that sometimes we choose NOT to listen. Sometimes more often than we choose TO listen. Most of the time its because we don’t really want to hear what He is telling us. I don’t know if what I am about to write pertains to anyone reading this other than me but I am just going to share what God is dealing with me about and maybe something will at least spark something for someone or spark something else for me.
It is time to begin working on spreading the Word of Jesus like we never have before. I don’t believe that works will get us to heaven only by grace does that happens but I do believe that hard work and obedience strengthen our relationships. I have learned so much in the past couple of months. I think that we have to start moving our arms and legs because if we don’t God will just use someone else. We can have all the faith in the world but if we don’t move we won’t be the vessel He uses. God used Moses to perform many miracles and of course Moses had faith that he would do it but I submit that if Moses only had faith but didn”t move his body and go where God told him to go and what God told Him to do that today we either wouldn’t know those miracles or the vessel would have been someone else. I think that faith part is easier than we let on, it’s the works part that we don’t like whether that’s because we don’t like to labor or because we put fear in everything but the Lord. I think its time to remember that “Faith WITHOUT works is DEAD” James 2:20. We have to stop worrying about who is right and who is wrong because sometimes the differences are not what is important. Would it be easier if we all believed exactly the same yes but all in all as long as we believe that we are saved by grace by the God that was born of the Virgin Mary, died on the cross, was raised from the dead on the third, and is now in heaven at the right hand of God we will be in the same place in the end. And it will be a beautiful new beginning. Let’s put the minor opinions aside. Its time to do some sweat labor for Jesus. The devil wants us to argue. I say let’s give it to him. Let’s build each other up and grow stronger and not only each other but everyone else that we can. I have to say this wasn’t at all what I sat down to say which is exactly why I know that this is from God.
I do want to add one thing from what I actually planned to say at first. It is time to trust Jesus, the Miracle Worker with our five loaves and two fish. Only He can take our meager rations and turn them into abundance, I do not only mean this monetarily. He makes our weaknesses His strengths. It is time to SHARE what we have with others the benefits for the kingdom of God will be great. In John 6, a young boy learned this lesson well. He shared what I will assume was his lunch and Jesus fed five thousand not only because the boy had faith but because he was willing to REACH OUT and share what little he had. In this small gesture Jesus created one of the most well known miracles in the Bible.
If we go out unashamed of Jesus and REACH OUT to others (friends, family or total strangers) just imagine the abundance of lives that would be saved and relationships that would then bare more fruit and more fruit until those 5 loaves and 2 fish have fed thousands but this time with HIS ETERNAL GIFT!
Let’s move our arms and legs!
Let’s share our five loaves and two fish!
Let’s share Jesus because being selfish with Him isn’t doing anyone any good. But sharing him benefits everyone. The very meaning of sharing is to enjoy jointly. And anytime I have been selfish about something I haven’t enjoyed it very much at all.
LOVE IS NOT SELFISH, IT IS SELFLESS!
