Matthew 14:13-21 is the account of Jesus feeding 5000 men besides women and children. Now these people had been around Jesus all day and were hungry when night came. I was reading this and a few things stuck out to me. The disciples said to Jesus to send the crowds into the nearby village to buy food for themselves. But Jesus told his disciples that they didn't need to send the crowds anywhere. He didn't want His people to leave Him-He wanted to spend as much time with them as possible. He then told the disciples to give the crowd food, of course the disciples were surprised that Jesus would make such a request and told Jesus that all they had was 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish-hardly enough to feed 5000+ people! Jesus simply asked them to give Him what they had and He did the rest. Most of you have heard the story and you know that all 5000+ people were fed from just the 5 loaves and 2 fish. Verse 20 says they all ate and were satisfied, WERE SATISFIED. I think that if the crowd had gone into the city they wouldn't have been satisfied. Not everyone had money, or would have had to share and not truly eaten all they wanted. They were satisfied with what Jesus had given them and there was even leftovers!
How great is it that our God wants to spend time with us, use and multiply what little we can offer, feed us and give us complete satisfaction!
