July 13

How much bread do you have?

Mark 8:1-10
(Jesus feeds four thousand people)
Please go and read the entire story for yourself... You will also be fed.

In Mark chapter 8 Jesus stated that he felt sorry for the people who were hungry in the wilderness. He told his disciples to feed them and they replied "How are we supposed to feed them out here in the wilderness?" Jesus reply is one that points to hope, it's an answer that gives us a clue as to what we should do when we feel hungry for more of God and feel far away from him. Jesus cares if we feel lost and hungry. Literally and spiritually. He cares if we are lost in the wilderness of our soul, or lost in the wilderness of our problems. He is showing us that we are never to far away for God to show up and help us. Jesus replied to his disciples question by simply asking them "How much bread do you have?"

Jesus is the bread of life. How much of his word do you have in you today? Yesterdays praise and yesterdays bible reading was sufficient for yesterday but what have you done to sustain your life in Christ today? When Jesus asked them how much bread they had, he wanted them to look at the blessings that surround them at that moment and not at the lack of something that was tormenting there minds.

The disciples told Jesus that they had 7 loaves of bread and Jesus took the 7 loaves and he thanked God for them.

This was his example to you and I  to look at what we have been blessed with and thank God for it and believe that he can and will supply all of our needs. Don't look at your situation with lack of faith or vision. Look at what God has already done and see in faith all that he can do.

Verse 8 states "They ate all that they wanted". How much do you want from the word of God? You can have as much as you want. Do you sometimes feel hungry to be closer to God and his word but yet you fill that void with television, music or sports? How many times have you felt the Spirit of God prompt you to read his words and yet you felt distracted to do something else?

You can have as much of God as you want and even have overflow just as there were 7 large baskets left over after everyone was finished eating.  You to can have overflow in your life. It's up to you. God is able to provide you with all you need and to have overflow but it's your choice to actually sit down and feed your soul the living bread of life.

Jesus solved four thousand individual problems in a matter of minutes simply by being thankful  for what God had already provided.

So let me ask you this question: How much bread do you have?

 

If your heart has been touched, please feel free to email me at:  Jina@preparingyourheart.com

Thank you