It’s funny that frequently when there is a problem in my life, I walk away from God.
My present state of health discourages me. Headlines in the news disheartens me. Entertainment and music become my means of escape from the difficulties of life.
But What did God make unclear that we are meant to rely on Him for everything?
If God is God, being all sufficient that He is, then to remain in Him is the safest place for a person to be.
What irony to see the disciples who urge Jesus to send the masses of people who sat to listen to Jesus away so they can feed themselves.
Thankfully, Jesus refuses them (Matthew 14:15). Jesus confounds them even more when He says:
“They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.” (Matthew 14:16 NKJV)
They found five loaves and two fish, but they saw that wasn’t going to sustain a crowd of 5000 men (this number did not include the women and children who were with them). Veins rose from their foreheads as the crowd grew restless.
It’s like the disciples all wore baseball caps that day that they could not see over the bill of their caps.
The answer is right in front of you!
Jesus performs a miracle where not only feeds everyone there but also fills 12 baskets of leftovers!
God demonstrates His inexhaustible power that magnificently floored human independence. There was no way that any man could feat to feed those countless thousands instantaneously. Stretching a fish lunch would be a joke.
Jesus did this supernatural wonder for one important reason:
“I am all sufficient. Stay with Me.”
At wake of the ills of the world, the failures of man, the decline of health, the ear of disaster, the sense of hopelessness, you can either turn for an escape, turn on others or turn to Jesus.
If you’re hungry and have no food, don’t leave me to find food. Didn’t I tell you:
“do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? (Matthew 6:25-26 NKJV)”
At your want to desert Me to bring meaning and satisfaction in your life, did you hear: “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst (John 6:35 NKJV)”!!!
When the sky folds and when people turn on each other, don’t run for a solace, “STAY WITH ME”! Stay with Christ.
“Christ is enough for me. Christ is enough for me. Everything I need is in You. Everything I need” (“Christ is Enough” -Hillsong Worship).
Listen to the song and let it be an anthem to you. There isn’t a resort outside of Christ.
He is everything you need. He is everything you want. I just need to change the way I think and just “taste and see that the LORD is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him! (Psalms 34:8 NKJV)”
Look at Him and find that He is the river and you’re the tree. Sink your roots in the bank. Stay with Him. Your leaves won’t wither; in fact, you will prosper and live to produce what you couldn’t think was able to come out of you (See Psalms 1:3).
Jesus is everything you need. There is no one like Our God!
FOLLOW THE SON 