Feeding the Five Thousand

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How many signs do you want to see before accepting Jesus as your Savior? How many miracles should Jesus perform for you to accept Him as your deliverer? Wouldn't you want to ask, Philip and Andrew as they were the close witnesses to the numerous miracles the Lord had performed. Jesus used them as a 'sounding board' to see how they would respond if they were to provide food for the five thousand, they only saw their impossibilities when pressed hard for answers. Philip was quick to calculate how many months of wages it would require to feed a bite to each one of those five thousand men, while Andrew could only see the inadequacy, 'the five loaves and two small fish would not go far enough' he said (John 6:9). They failed to ask Jesus for guidance. They failed to trust that Jesus can do the impossible. They perhaps they were missing the point what Jesus was trying to make.

The good news is that Jesus did not reprimand his disciples for failing to know who Jesus was and you too can be for not recognizing who Jesus really is in your personal lives. For one you are too far stretched out in time from when Jesus walked the earth and secondly, one of the irony of living in a pluralistic society is that we are obliged to accept even if we disagree. Like the disciples, when you are pressed hard for answers, you look inwardly rather than upwards to God. You look at what you don't have rather than whom you have with you.

Today the world is looking for answers. You have several options
- Do you consider Him as your Lord and God, the Only One who can free you from your Sin and give you life eternal?
- Do you want to follow Jesus as a godly man, a prophet from God. Is he really a prophet or is he more than a prophet?
- Do you believe that Jesus came to give political freedom and establish Israel at the central authority from where all political and spiritual decisions would be made ((Isaiah 11:11-12)