You feed them...

Today I was reading about how Jesus fed the 5,000 in Luke 9:11-17.  They were outside of town where Jesus was teaching the crowd about the Kingdom of God and was healing them of their diseases. 

Evening was approaching and the disciples were worried that the people were getting hungry.  There were no stores or cafes where the people could buy food.  No one was there to cater the meeting.

When the disciples asked Jesus to tell the crowd of people to go away to find food in the nearby towns, Jesus responded with an interesting answer:  “You give them something to eat.”  The disciples thought this ridiculous because the most they were able to find was 5 loaves and 2 fish.  It never even dawned on them that they had access to the unlimited resources of the Lord Jesus Christ to draw on!

As we read the rest of the passage we find out that the meager “dinner for 2”, all that the disciples had to offer, was multiplied by Jesus into dinner for about 15,000 people (including women and children) with plenty left over!  The disciples simply needed to ask God to provide a way for them to minister to the people given the resources they had. 

In The Believer’s Commentary we read: 

The five thousand represent lost humanity, starving for the bread of God. The disciples picture helpless Christians, with seemingly limited resources… The Lord’s command, “You give them something to eat” is simply a restatement of the Great Commission. The lesson is that if we give Jesus what we have, He can multiply it to feed the spiritually hungry multitude.

Perhaps you are in a situation where you feel like you are alone in trying to bring the gospel to your classmates, or perhaps there are just a few of you daring to believe God that He will work through you. 

You are aware that there are cities with more resources than you have available, such as full time Campus Crusade for Christ staff or a bigger group of believers or money for ministry.  But God has specifically placed you in your city without staff.  He has placed you at your university and given you all the resources you need to do what He is asking you to do! God wants you to ask Him to work through you to start a ministry for Christ to bring the gospel to lost classmates at your university! 

In Jesus you have all the resources you need to do what He has called you to do.  Just lift up what you have and ask Him to bless it and multiply your meager resources into something that glorifies Him and brings students at your university to a saving relationship with Him.

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