Monday August 7, 2017
“There is nothing to look at, nothing but manna,” complain the Israelites. “We have nothing here but five loaves and two fishes,” the disciples report despondently. They were wrong. They were not looking at nothing; instead, they were looking at something, which, in God’s hands, would turn out to be enough and more to feed all people to their heart’s content. The Israelites suffered from selective memory and lack of gratitude. They forgot God’s mighty interventions in their journey, but remembered only the cucumbers, the melons, and the garlic they ate under Egyptian captivity! Would they prefer the fleeting comforts under slavery to the fleeting struggles of freedom? The disciples too have forgotten Jesus’s many miracles and lack imagination in faith.
We may find ourselves with limited resources in our life. But let us stretch our imagination and pour our little resources into the big hands of God and wait eagerly for His miracles. This wait in hopeful trust is of far greater worth than the many drugs of slavery to sin.
