Feeding the five and walking on water.
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“I have an iron will, and all of my will has always been to conquer some horrible feeling of inadequacy… I push past one spell of it and discover myself as a special human being and then I get to another stand and think I’m mediocre and unintersting… Again and Again. My drive in life is from the horirble fear of being mediocre. And that’s always pushing me, pushing me. Because even though I’ve become Somebody, I still have to prove that I’m somebody. My struggle has never ended and it probably never will.” -
“I’m twenty-four and I’ve never known it. Im forever in pursuit and I dont even know what it is Im chasing… ll raise my eyes and look down that corridor . four feet wide, and ten lonely second to justify my lonely existence.” - An Olympic sprinter in “Chariots of Fire”
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If you have seen the Chosen, this is the finale of season three. My wife and I had not watched it for some time, but as soon as Al assinged it… i happened to watch it.
The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught. Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.”
This is a normal rhythm for Jesus, to go into the wilderness in order to
Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.
Jesus new there was a time for work and a time for rest. A time to go out and a time to go home. There is a time when you just need to go to the wilderness with your father.
So they went away by themselves in a boat to a solitary place. But many who saw them leaving recognized them and ran on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them. When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things. By this time it was late in the day, so his disciples came to him. “This is a remote place,” they said, “and it’s already very late.
Now why does Jesus see them as sheep without a shepherd?
It is a picture in the biblical imagination of being lost. Of no having a leader. think of a sheep.
The Father who works too much.
He started for the right reasons. But lost his way.
It all started because he wanted to provide for his family. To keep them safe and protected.
Success can lead to you down the road of forgetting who you are and what is important. When you forget these, you become lost.
I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and a flood overflows me.
The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught. Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.”
Unless the Lord builds a house, They who build it labor in vain; Unless the Lord guards a city, The watchman stays awake in vain. It is futile for you to rise up early, To stay up late, To eat the bread of painful labor; This is how He gives to His beloved sleep.
We can be working hard for the right reasons and lose what is most important.
The Preacher’s Notebook: The Collected Quotes, Illustrations, and Prayers of John Stott God Likes to Barge In
“The God that Christianity proclaims is an outrageous nonconformist. He refuses to stand on the sidelines of His universe.… He intervenes.… Without putting it into words, many of us wish that God would keep in His place. He seems to lack decorum. He barges in and does the strangest things.”
“Consider your own life. When the relationship goes sour, when the feelings of futility come flooding in, when it feels like life is passing us by, when it seems that our one shot at significance has slipped through our fingers, when we can’t sort out our emotions, when the longtime friend lets us down, when a family member betrays us, when we feel deeply misunderstood, when we are laughed at by the impressive—in short, when the fallenness of the world closes in on us and makes us want to throw in the towel—there, right there, we have a Friend who knows exactly what such testing feels like, and sits close to us, embraces us. With us. Solidarity. Our” - Dane ORtlund
“Personal ministry is not about always knowing what to say. It is not about fixing everything in sight that is broken. Personal ministry is about connecting people with Christ so that they are able to think as he would have them think, desire what he says is best, and do what he calls them to do even if their circumstances never get "fixed." It involves exposing hurt, lost, and confused people to God's glory, so that they give up their pursuit of their own glory and live for his.” - Paul David Tripp
A sitting silently at the feet of Jesus is of more worth than all the clatter of Martha’s dishes.
Breakfast With Jesus, Volume 35, Sermon #2072 - John 21:12
Charles Spurgeon
“When we start being too impressed by the results of our work, we slowly come to the erroneous conviction that life is one large scoreboard where someone is listing the points to measure our worth. And before we are fully aware of it, we have sold our soul to the many grade-givers. That means we are not only in the world, but also of the world. Then we become what the world makes us. We are intelligent because someone gives us a high grade. We are helpful because someone says thanks. We are likable because someone likes us. And we are important because someone considers us indispensable. In short, we are worthwhile because we have successes. And the more we allow our accomplishments — the results of our actions — to become the criteria of our self-esteem, the more we are going to walk on our mental and spiritual toes, never sure if we will be able to live up to the expectations which we created by our last successes. In many people’s lives, there is a nearly diabolic chain in which their anxieties grow according to their successes. This dark power has driven many of the greatest artists into self-destruction.” - Henri Nouwen
The Gospel according to Mark Feeding the Five Thousand (6:31–44)
The bread of Jesus satisfies because it is an expression of his compassion, and it is given in such measure that there is a basket of leftovers for each of the disciples.