January 19th Devotion

Matthew 14:16 (NIV)
16 Jesus replied, "They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat."

While Jesus was in a remote area, he began preaching to 5,000 people. He preached into the late afternoon, and one of his disciples brought his attention to the fact that the people had not eaten and needed to find food to buy in the surrounding villages.

He told his disciples to give them food. Their response was a natural one. “We don’t have any food to give.” If they would have said that to anyone else, they would have been absolutely correct. But, since they were with Jesus, they had plenty of food to go around, and have some left over.

The lesson concerning our meeting the needs of others is a great and necessary message. Greater still is the lesson that any obstacle that we come across, can be met by Jesus. We can be challenged to look at each situation in our lives when we see failure, and know that were we to count on anyone else, the answer would be, “we can’t”. I have wondered many times in my life, “why don’t mountains jump into the sea?” The answer is simple. We KNOW they won’t.

Lord Jesus, please help us to believe in You. Help us to move mountains.

Love, Pastor Don