Offer What You Have

 

I suppose I was like most kids growing up in playing make-believe. There weren’t any high-tech gadgets back in the day so we had to use our imagination. I don’t recall ever being an astronaut or a pirate but I do remember striking out a batter in the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded to win the World Series! Once we get to be adults, we tend to be more concrete in looking at and dealing with the world around us although most of us occasionally visualize some situation or interaction that is on our mind.

 

We can read a Bible passage a hundred times without ever putting ourselves into the scene. Stop for a minute and visualize Jesus in front of the crowd of thousands of people. He asks Philip to give them something to eat. Philip throws his hands up in the air saying that it can’t be done. Andrew calls out to the crowd to ask if anyone has food. None of the adults in the crowd respond, but a little boy comes forward and offers what he has, five small barley loaves and two small fish.  Andrew thanks the boy for his generosity but doesn’t think it makes a difference. He tells Jesus about the boy’s offer. Jesus accepts what the boy gives and turns it into a feast for the multitude, with baskets of food left over.

 

We have a choice. We can be like the adults in the story and look at the problems and needs around us and say that there is nothing we can do, or we can be like the little boy and offer what we have, trusting God to take what we give and multiply it for His kingdom.

 

Come before God in prayer today. Ask Jesus what He wants to do and what He needs. Ask what you can give Him.

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