All That You Have....

He was just a young boy, maybe ten or twelve years of age. By now he should be working to learn the trade of his father, as was the custom. But there was something missing; he wasn't sure who he wanted to be or what he was supposed to do with his life. He had heard from some people in the village of a Man who was drawing crowds by the thousands to come and hear Him speak.  Maybe this Man could tell him what he needed to know.

He grabbed some food and tossed it in a basket and left to search for this Man. He found Him on a hillside next to the Sea, speaking to thousands of people. He sat among them, enamored by this Man and all that He had to say. But the day grew long and the people began to get hungry; they hadn't thought to bring food with them.

The Man told his friends to feed the people; but they were anxious because they had no food and it would take a great deal of money to order take out. After scoping out the crowd, one of the men said, “All we can find is one young boy here with a basket of food.”

As the young boy approached the Man, he held out his basket and said, “I only have five loaves of bread and two fish; I know it’s not much, but it’s all I have….”

And Jesus said, 

“That’s all that I need.”

From the young boy’s basket with five loaves of bread and two fish, over five thousand people were fed. John 6:13 says, “When the people had eaten their fill….they filled twelve large baskets with leftovers…”

All that you have is all that He needs. Have you given Him all that you have? For when you do, He will multiply it over and over and over again until it meets the need and “nothing is lost or wasted” (John 6:12 AMP).

“Give, and it shall be given unto you; 

good measure, pressed down, 

and shaken together and running over…” 

Luke 6:38 (KJV)

‘Lena Ehlert

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