The Message
God has the ability to feed people without starting with anything. Remember the manna in the wilderness? That came down every morning as bread from the heavens. It was miraculous, and yet the people grew tired of the miracles. They complained about eating manna everyday.
Here, though, Jesus is teaching the crowds. He's starting with the five loaves and two fish. It feels meager in the face of five thousand, but Jesus uses what is already there.
In the same way, Jesus starts with us where we are. What we have may feel meager. You may feel inadequate. You might not believe that God can do something amazing through you. I promise you, God can do miraculous things starting from ordinary places. Jesus consistently creates abundance in places of scarcity, and God will do so in your life, as well.
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