Jesus meets our needs – Mark 8:1-10
Do you waste time worrying about things you need? Check out how Jesus stretched the Disciples food budget so they could feed 4000 people with only 7 loaves of bread and a few small fish.
Jesus had compassion on the many people that followed him to hear his teachings. The crowd in today’s passage had hung around to listen for three days and their food supply had run out. The Disciples had only seven loaves of bread left and a few small fish, But when Jesus blessed it, it was more than enough to feed all four thousand people. The Disciples gathered up seven large baskets of left over food. Here is the story:
Mark 8:1-10
8 About this time another large crowd had gathered, and the people ran out of food again. Jesus called his disciples and told them, 2 “I feel sorry for these people. They have been here with me for three days, and they have nothing left to eat. 3 If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way. For some of them have come a long distance.”
4 His disciples replied, “How are we supposed to find enough food to feed them out here in the wilderness?”
5 Jesus asked, “How much bread do you have?”
“Seven loaves,” they replied.
6 So Jesus told all the people to sit down on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves, thanked God for them, and broke them into pieces. He gave them to his disciples, who distributed the bread to the crowd. 7 A few small fish were found, too, so Jesus also blessed these and told the disciples to distribute them.
8 They ate as much as they wanted. Afterward, the disciples picked up seven large baskets of leftover food. 9 There were about 4,000 people in the crowd that day, and Jesus sent them home after they had eaten. 10 Immediately after this, he got into a boat with his disciples and crossed over to the region of Dalmanutha.
–Mark 8:1-10 (NLT)
Do you have unmet needs? What resources do you have? If we are willing to yield our resources to Jesus and our lives to his purposes, he can multiply our resources to meet the needs.