Responding to Human Need

The only one of Christ's miracles recorded in all 4 Gospels? Jesus feeds 5000. What a headline. Including women and children it was probably 10, 15, 20, maybe 25,000. The point is this: Jesus responds to human need with compassionate action, while we often respond with demanding indifference. Like the disciples told Jesus, "you send them away...so they can buy food for themselves." Let them fend for themselves! Wow. Telling God what to do? I've done it, said it, thought it too many times to count.

Here's another amazing thing Jesus does: He uses gospel-changed people to distribute the provision, primarily the Gospel, the only thing that can meet mankind's spiritual need. The Gospel drives selfishness away and makes us more like Jesus.