The Abundance of God
In Matthew 14:19-20, Jesus commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitudes. So they all ate and were filled, and they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments that remained.
After we give it all over to God, we give Him the space He needs to work His miracles. The problem with us is we always want to be in the way, especially in God’s way, ESPECIALLY when it comes to the great work of salvation. Only God through Jesus Christ can save! He is mighty to save. Yet, we try to put our little bit of works in it. We are so desperate to put our two cents in, but honestly God doesn’t need or want our two cents. He paid in full the price of salvation. Somehow we trick ourselves into believing that our God, who created the entire universe (and everything in it), needs our help to resolve a simple situation in our lives. What has man created or invented? Nothing really. Everything was already created, then God put the knowledge in the mind of someone or some people to put it together and then we have something we think is new. It is just God’s creation and He allowed man to combine different aspects to make something. Instead of being patient, waiting upon God to act, we are always putting pressure on God, trying to tell Him He needs to work faster. We need to be still and watch the Lord work in His glory. As we see what the Lord did with five loaves of bread and two fish, how much more can He do with our hearts if we were to just simply believe in Him, trust in Him, rely upon Him, cling to Him? It is never too late to make a u-turn and give our hearts and lives over to the Lord Jesus Christ so He can start and complete a good work we NEVER would have deemed imaginable. The beauty of it all, there is ALWAYS an abundance of Jesus Christ, and abundance of the Holy Spirit, an abundance of God our Father always ready to fill us up and satisfy all of our needs just as twelve baskets of fish and bread left over!