Mark 6:41-46
"And when He had taken the five loaves and the two fish, He looked up to heaven, blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to His disciples to set before them; and the two fish He divided among them all. So they all ate and were filled. And they took up twelve baskets full of fragments and of the fish. Now those who had eaten the loaves were about five thousand men.
Immediately He made His disciples get into the boat and go before Him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while He sent the multitude away. And when He had sent them away, He departed to the mountain to pray".
Jesus told the disciples not to send the multitude away but rather to feed them. Then by raw faith, calling those things which weren't as if they were, He took the little boy's breakfast -two small sardines and five small barley loaves of bread. Jesus blessed them, and multiplied the food! Five thousand men (not counting the women and the children who were there with them) were fed, and twelve baskets full of leftovers were collected that very same day.
We need to ask ourselves a question. Have we ever really gone without food? Why is it then that we continually fret and worry and get stress out to the extent that we cause ourselves to be physically sick with ulcers, high blood pressure, or depression? Yet in the meantime Jesus has always given us enough food and clothes for that very day.
Do you remember the story of the two little birds sitting on the telephone line? The one little finch said to his friend, "Why are the people running to and fro, storing up food and goods in their houses and looking so worried and stressed out?"
The other little bird replied, "They probably do not know our Father in heaven who supplies all of your and my needs everyday." (Mark 11:22.)
Have faith in God. Taken from Angus Buchan's book, "a Mustard Seed"
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