My religion professor gave an awesome lecture this week on Christ's feeding of the 5,000. I had never really realized the significance of that event. The real message isn't just another miracle that Jesus did, it's teaching us about consecration.
All of us have felt at one time or another (maybe all the time, ha) that our resources have been depleted, that we don't have enough time, energy, skill, money, etc. to do what needs to be done. Instead of hoarding the little that we do have, however, if we will give all of our resources to the Lord, as the boy with his barley loaves and fishes, He will make what we have enough, and some to spare. Isn't that incredible? Isn't that relieving? Yeah, life is hard. Yeah, there will be times when it is impossible to do everything that has to be done, and that's exactly the point where you have to say, "Here are my five loaves, Heavenly Father. Could you help me feed 5,000?"
So this is all recorded in Matthew 14. In Matthew 15, Christ feeds another 4,000 people, but before He does so, the disciples ask, "Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?" My question is....why...did they ask that? How could they forget how Christ fed so many earlier? What do you guys think?
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Here is what Talmage suggests in Jesus the Christ, "Rather let us believe that the disciples remembered well [the previous miracle], yet deemed it beyond their duty or privilege to suggest a repetition of the miracle" (358).
According to the account in Matthew 15, I agree with Talmage. It doesn't really sound as if the disciples have forgotten the previous miracle. . . they just want to know what His current plan is.
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks!
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