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Matthew chapter 14 verse 19

when Matthew's telling us the story of Jesus feeding over 5,000 people.

He says that Jesus ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass and taking the five loaves

and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and set a blessing. Then he broke the

loaves and gave them to the disciples and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

So amidst so much that's awesome in this passage.

I think about what just happened when Jesus asked for the Father's blessing, multiplication

on this food, but then the role that Jesus had for the disciples to play in this miracle. If the point of the story was just to show us

Jesus supremacy, then Jesus could have called down bread from heaven right

into people's laps. The people would have seen, maybe even

recognized him more so as the God who provides food from heaven. But instead he

prays, asks for the Father's blessing,

and then he calls the disciples to his side.

He doesn't just give out one piece of bread here or there.

Instead he gives the bread to the disciples and they distributed.

Now we're not told how this miracle took place.

Our imagination, at least mine does, just starts to wander as we think about how five lows suddenly or

slowly however began to multiply from his hands into their hands but that's the

picture the hands of Christ serving the hands of his disciples and in the hands of

those disciples serving the crowds and that is a powerful picture. Jesus showing his grace and power to this crowd through his disciples.

These disciples were an extension of his mercy and his power at work in the lives of these men and women.

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