After missing last Sunday, we'll take a second shot at this text from John 6:1-15. Watch out, I had another full week to think about this! Ya know what I thought about? I thought about the fact that John tells us that Jesus was testing his disciples. He already knew that he was going to feed all those people with a miracle. But he gave the disciples that task first.
It must have seemed so perplexing and impossible. Jesus lays the responsibility on the disciples to come up with enough food to feed those thousands. And they were in the wilderness, on the side of a mountain. There's no Fred Meyer, there are no resources, there is no way that they can physically do it. I wonder what it was like for them to look at each other, frustrated that Jesus was putting this on them.
I'm sure you've felt that weight, that frustration before. You wonder why God has given you such an impossible task, and why he hasn't given you the tools to do it! See, I think Jesus wanted the disciples to feel that weight for a second, and I think he wants us to feel it too. He wants to teach us where to look when we need help. Or to put it in the context of this miracle- when we need "helpings."
