Day 11

Mark 8

I'm not sure a lot of people know that Jesus actually did a miracle with bread and fish twice, feeding 4000 one time and 5000 another. The thing that always gets me is how clueless the disciples seem the second time around. This is one of those things that has to be true because nobody would have made this up. Mark was there. This is embarrassing to him personally. You've just watched Jesus feed a hungry crowd with a little bread and fish. You wind up in the exact same scenario. You look around and find a little bread and a little fish. And nobody thinks - "Hey Jesus, why don't you do that trick again like you did last time?" They still wonder - "How are we going to feed all these people?" (v.4) I know I'm slow sometimes, but I wonder if I would have been that slow. And would my faith been so lacking that I wouldn't trust Jesus to do something that I'd already seen Him do? But the fact is, if I think about it long enough, I kind of do that all the time. God's always provided my needs for me. Every day of my entire life. Why would I worry that He's going to stop, like maybe if I lose a job or after I retire? God's always led me to make decisions. Why do I worry that I'm all alone making the ones I'm facing right now? Does the fact that some of them are bigger than ones in my past mean they've all of a sudden gotten too tough for him? So I shouldn't be too hard on the disciples. They just struggle with the same thing I do. But God doesn't change. If I could trust Him then, I can trust Him now.