You are performing miracle (John 6:1-14) 270207
Recently I discovered an amazing phenomenal: my bank account had never run try for the past one and a half years since I started full-time studies. I do not have much saving to start off with, and I am not someone who is cautious in managing money. But God has been really faithful and for many years ever since I started working, I have surplus in my saving account. My joke with my wife is that I have an account that never run dry. It is not because I am good in saving, or I have become stingy, in fact I am still quite easy with giving people a treat, going for movies, and tithing. How can this happen? It is a miracle!
John 6:1-14 is a super familiar passage. It is about Jesus performing a miracle by feeding more than five thousand people with only five barley loaves and two fish (v9, 11). It seemed to be an important task too feed so many people, but Jesus did it! Did He do it alone? How was the miracle performed? Did Jesus keep multiplying the bread and the fish and ask His disciples to keep collecting them and keep distributing them? This sound very tiring, maybe not for Jesus, but for the twelve disciples to serve more than five thousand people!
I think, the bread and the fish continued to multiply at the hands of the disciples and also at the hands among the five thousand people as they were passing the bread and the fish around to one another. The disciples and the people actually were part of the miracles! They performed miracles too! They had no lack of food when they began to share with one another. I am not being liberal in my understanding of this passage, that only the moral or ethic of this narrative is important and the miracle is not the key thing here. The mircale of the bread and the fish multiplying is the most important thing here, and the key is that this miracle is performed with the hands of Jesus’ disciples and the people!
God can use your hand to do miracles. When I recalled why I have never lack of anything and have account that seemingly never run dry, it is because there are people around me performing this miracle together. You are part of this miracle. I am not only refering to those who have contributed financially, but also those who have been praying, and giving of time.
You can perform miracle, only if you trust in Him and begin to share what He has given you. It can be in term of materials, or time to serve or a heart to care and love. Whenever you read a devotion from me, it is a miracle you have performed. It is because of your constant encouragement and appreciation that push me to continue to write despite I have to hand in two assignments today and an exam to take later. Really, you are the one who have created this miracle with your heart of care and love. Whenever you think that it is a miracle for me to study and at the same time running a youth ministry in another church, leading the cell group, leading the Boys’ and Girls’ Brigade ministry, being the Chairman of Student Council in SBC and still trying to have time helping some youths from church, it is you who have performed this miracle. It is because of your volunteering in washing dishes in the cell group, serving alongside in BBGB ministries, praying for my studies, serving in the Youth ministry, and others things that you give time to serve. You have created a miracle. I believe there are also many miracles in your life that is the result of other people’s love, time or prayers. All can do miracles if you believe and willing.
