I was the topic of a sermon. Not that it hasn’t happened in the past but it’s usually, “don’t do what she did” type of sermon. Today it was about answering a call, seeing God lead and being a miracle for others. Actually the sermon was about the loaves and fishes but it was tied into how we can be the miracle that God uses to bless other people.
The thought of the loves and fishes: I am now going outside the box for those of you would need to prepare to be led on a goose chase. The disciples found a boy with a lunch. Excuse me here but there were a lot of people. 5000 not counting women and children. That’s a lot of people. We tend to think about the breaking of bread off the loaf that never ended and handing it to the next person time and time and time and time again. I want to take it a different way. 4999 didn’t plan ahead. 4999 didn’t pack a lunch. I am sure there were reasons. I have rushed off in a tiff of excitement and forgot lots of things. I want to give major kudos to the mom of that young man who packed his lunch. She thought she was simply doing the mother’s job. Feed him, clothe him, wash him, ask him who his friends are, pick up his clothes, put his school books away, make his bed, find his lost homework and sign his permission slip kind of mother things. I doubt she had any idea she would be the source of Jesus performing a miracle. What if she had said, ” you can eat when you get home.” Or perhaps, “here are a few shekels. Grab something at McGalilee’s on your way home. ” She did what she felt she should do: pack a lunch. Her being obedient gave way to an incredible miracle.
We go through life doing the things we feel led to do. We do them because it’s the right thing to do. We are usually not aware that God maybe could use that little thing to perform a miracle in someone else’s life; or 4999 other someone’s lives.
I put in writing I was willing to help. Someone else had a need. They saw my note. They sent an email. I answered the email, that led to a visit that led to helping a church walk through a challenging time and get the joy back in music for them. All I did was put what I felt God leading me to do, pack a lunch, and that lunch did a lot more than any of us imagined,
Kind of mind boggling to think of what Jesus will do if we do simple things like packing lunches.
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