Five Loaves and Two Fish
In the last two months or so we have heard three sermons on “The Feeding of the Five Thousand”. I began to ponder what the Lord is trying to tell us. Why is He bringing us back to that so often? Is it just that going through the Gospels seems to be the “in thing” right now? Somehow, I think not. So what is it?
We are in the US for just seven weeks – not long enough to lease a car (get a phone line, cell phone plan, or internet service, either). Paul rented an Enterprise economy car for 23 days, reserving it on-line. We were up-graded twice when we picked it up. Nice car, plenty of room, satellite radio.
Paul was within 30 minutes of renting a car for five days in Seattle when one of our US colleagues offered us one of their cars. It was comfortable and roomy.
Now we are back in So Cal for 18 days. Once again Paul reserved an economy car on Orbitz. He fretted that it would be too small for our needs. After repeated comments from him, I reminded him that we are nearly always up-graded at the rental office and that God knows just what we need. We prayed together.
Off to Hertz we went Friday morning. Economy car. Didn’t have any. The Corolla could only be rented 3 days at a time. Hmmm. How about “that Mustang”. I about gulped. One of us mentioned that we needed to fit our luggage into it. “Oh. Well, let’s see…How about a Subaru Outback? I have one of those.”
Today as Paul and I loaded the crippled lawn mower into the back of the Outback we both commented how God certainly knew exactly what we needed!
I thought back to the sermons. Little boy has an economy lunch. Jesus fed 5000 men plus women and children. We had an economy car reserved – three times – and God gave us so much more.
Why the sermons? What’s ahead? I only know that God is our “Provider” and we are anticipating His meeting every need – with leftovers! His call to us is to trust Him and be faithful with all that He provides. Please pray for us.
