Jesus Needs Your Lunch!

‘Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, looked up toward heaven, and blessed them. Then, breaking the loaves into pieces, he kept giving the bread to the disciples so they could distribute it… He also divided the fish for everyone to share’ Mark 6:41

‘Where is this boy?’ This is the first thought that runs through her mind as she glances out the window at the setting sun. And then as though to answer her question, she sees her little boy skipping playfully up the road. ‘Yet who are these men carrying baskets behind him and where is his lunch box?’ So she washes the soap off her hands and heads out the door to get answers to the questions on her mind. The little boy comes running toward his mother as usual but even he cannot help noticing that her hug is not as long and snugly as usual. And then the questions come pouring out. ‘Where have you been young man?’ ‘I’ve been with Jesus mum’ he responds. ‘Who are these men?’ she asks. ‘That’s Peter, John, James…’ She cuts him off in a hurry to understand what exactly is going on. ‘Who are these men and what are they carrying?’ she asks half looking at her son and glancing from disciple to disciple. ‘These are Jesus’ disciples and they have come with my baskets of bread and fish’. Completely puzzled she asks ‘…how?’ ‘Mum, you won’t believe it if I told you. I gave Jesus my lunch, at first when he asked for it I thought what if He eats it. But when I looked into His eyes I knew everything would be just fine. Jesus gave thanks mum and with just my lunch He fed so many people. It just kept multiplying but it was not a trick. After we had all eaten, these men helped gather the remaining and it filled twelve baskets. And then Jesus looked at me and said ‘you my boy get to go home with twelve baskets’. I gave Him my lunch mum and now we have twelve baskets’.

It is the person that gives the lunch that goes with the baskets, incase you are wondering who went home with the baskets. Yes God did the miracles through the hands of Peter and the other disciples but they did not go home with the baskets. The little boy who gave up his lunch reaped the multiplied harvest. Jesus is asking for your ‘lunch box’. Are you going to give it up, experience a miracle, and go home with twelve baskets? That lunch box is the key to experiencing a miracle.

Prayer: Father, may I not use my own hands to block my miracles, in Jesus Name.