Have It Your Way

Matthew 14: 
15  When it was evening, the disciples came to Him and said, “This place is desolate and the hour is already late; so send the crowds away, that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.” 16  But Jesus said to them, “They do not need to go away; you give them something to eat!” 17  They said to Him, “We have here only five loaves and two fish.” 18  And He said, “Bring them here to Me.” 19  Ordering the people to sit down on the grass, He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food, and breaking the loaves He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds, 20  and they all ate and were satisfied. They picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve full baskets. 21  There were about five thousand men who ate, besides women and children.

 

(Observation) The disciples ask Jesus to execute on their own proposed solution to the problem. Instead Jesus tells them to perform the impossible. Jesus asks for the food they have and feeds everyone. Each disciple picks up more food than Jesus started with.

 

(Interpretation) God is able to make provision for the work he commands His disciples to do.

 

(Cross- Reference)
Ephesians 3: 20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, 21 to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

Isaiah 55: 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts.

(Application) It is best to ask God for His solution according to His will. His ways are higher than mine.

 

Question: What to you Think? Would there ever be a situation when it would not be best to end your supplication to God with Have it your way? Or even better, to end as Jesus did, “…yet not My will, but Yours be done.”

 

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