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Theo Tigno•
5/5/2011 6:28 pm
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Friday in the Second Week of Easter |
John 6: 1-15
Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee. A large crowd followed him, because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples The Jewish feast of Passover was near. When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip, "Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?" He said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered him, "Two hundred days' wages worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little." One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him, "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many?" Jesus said, "Have the people recline." Now there was a great deal of grass in that place. So the men reclined, about five thousand in number. Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were reclining, and also as much of the fish as they wanted. When they had had their fill, he said to his disciples, "Gather the fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted." So they collected them, and filled twelve wicker baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves that had been more than they could eat. When the people saw the sign he had done, they said, "This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world." Since Jesus knew that they were going to come and carry him off to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain alone.
Dawg's Thought:
Today's prayer intention - for an end to abortion and the use of contraception.
Insecurity. I feel like it is something that we all have. I know I have them in varying degrees is many different facets. Music. Work. Self-image.
It often times makes me "decrease" in an "un-John-the-Baptist" sort-of way. I think about the new songs that I'm writing and how I would rather it remain in the shadows.
Yet, if it is a gift from God, why wouldn't He anoint it? Why wouldn't He multiply the good He calls us to? Why wouldn't he take the little offering that we have and multiply it for His glory?
He has done it, and continues to do it. I think about this ministry and how it was a little offering done for a few friends. It has been an opportunity for God to be glorified, and for me to be humbled. It was an opportunity for Our Lord to increase as I decreased.
Is our insecurity, then, a disordered desire to want to increase? Is it a disordered way of looking at the work of the Lord we are called to participate in ... the work of the Lord where we can be a "gift" to the Father?
Let us be everlasting gifts to the Father and to this world. Let us not live in the shadows, hiding our "loaves and fishes" because we fear it wouldn't be enough or because we fear that we are not enough. You are enough because God created you and God does not make mistakes. You are very good; do not fear.
Take care and God Bless.
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