THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NESS He would gladly supply the lack if He could find channels through which to do it. He might do without us, but He has ordained it otherwise. We are always questioning as to resources. What we need is not a power house, but a fuller faith. Moses does not need eloquence, nor an army, only a rod. Joshua needs but a few poor rams’ horns. Gideon, a few lamps and pitchers. David, a Sling and a stone. Daniel, a clear-eyed vision of his God. How inadequate it all seems! A few fishermen and a Crucified Leader, but He came down from Heaven to give life to the world (John 6:38). “For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, hut the will of Him that sent me. And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which He hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.” From Calvary’s cross flowed a supply adequate for all sin, for all time. From the tomb came a Man, sovereign in His Sonship; from the Heavens came the Spirit, potent in power. The fragments of His broken body, and the drops of His shed blood, have been passed on and on through the centuries. We need to recognize the cause of failure here to be in the failing faith of His fol lowers; never in our Lord. What a beautiful picture is here! The King,^—mighty, merciful, humble. The multitude in companies, suggesting the order and fellowship of the church. The disciples,—meekly, joyfully minis tering. And all fed, and all filled. (John 6:11). “And Jesus took the loaves; and when He had given thanks, He dis tributed to the disciples, and the disci ples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.” (Psa. 23:1). “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” ) (3) MINDFUL OF FRAGMENTS, vs. 20 , 21 .
1166 healing and helping? How is it that they are yet men of so little faith? (Luke 8:25). The Faithful Friend: “I have com passion.” Thank God, one heart always heats true. No night so dark; no need so great; no task so difficult, hut that He will say “I have compassion.” Hear Him,—helpless, hopeless, friend less, hungry souls—He lias compassion! (Matt. 15132). “Then Jesus called His disciples unto Him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have noth ing to eat; and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.” Finding Food: “How many loaves have you?” “What are they among so many?” Barley loaves were given as food to Roman soldiers in punishment. They were the food of the very poor in Pales tine. How inadequate! how insignifi cant! It seems like a mockery to bring to Hiin such a meager supply with which to minister to such a multitude. He could have fed the multitude with out the loaves and fishes as He did the children of Israel in the wilderness, yet He prefers to associate their scanty supply with His blessed bounty. He takes the bread into His own hands,-4- blesses, breaks, bestows. Even when He feeds them He thinks of their com fort and bids them recline upon the grass and rest. *He uses His disciples as the medium through which the multi tude is fed. Without is a barren desert. There is nothing in it to satisfy the soul of man. And so we are unable in ourselves to do anything. We have but a few poor barley loaves. How hopeless the out look! He says, ‘‘Bring them to me.” He takes us into His own hands, blesses us, breaks us,, bestows through us His own life. There is sufficiency in Him to supply all the want of the world, both body and soul.
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