Today’s Daily Lesson comes from John chapter 6 verses 1 through 10:
After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias. 2A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing for the sick. 3Jesus went up the mountain and sat down there with his disciples. 4Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was near. 5When he looked up and saw a large crowd coming towards him, Jesus said to Philip, ‘Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?’ 6He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do. 7Philip answered him, ‘Six months’ wages would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little.’ 8One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, 9‘There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what are they among so many people?’ 10Jesus said, ‘Make the people sit down.’ Now there was a great deal of grass in the place; so they sat down, about five thousand in all.
So often we doubt that what we have could really be enough to meet the tasks at hand. We see the crowd and their hunger, and we think to ourselves our offering is so meager, our abilities so minor.
No wonder it is a child who is the one who dares to think what he has is enough in today’s Lesson. He has not yet learned to think, calculate, disbelief. He has not yet learned to doubt that all things are possible with God.
“You must become a child again,” Jesus said. And it is true. If we are ever going to please a crowd, or feed a hungry world, or do anything else miraculous in life, then we’re going to stop telling ourselves that what we have isn’t enough and like children believing again in God’s ability to multiply loaves and fish and whatever else we happen to have with us when the need arises.
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