Which is far less than Jesus provided them way back when:<\/p>\n
“And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full”<\/font><\/b> (Matthew 14:20).<\/p>\n Not just tidbits, barely enough to tide them over. Oh no! This bread-and-fish meal filled all of them.<\/p>\n But the disciples had to start with contributing the little bit they had, both of food and of faith:<\/p>\n “He said, Bring them hither to me”<\/font><\/b> (Matthew 14:18).<\/p>\n Jesus did the rest. And that’s how it’s supposed to work all the time!<\/p>\n This happened because Jesus cared for the people despite His own need.<\/p>\n John the Baptist had just been beheaded and buried. Jesus had just heard from and offered comfort and perspective to John’s disciples.<\/p>\n Now He needed some time alone:<\/p>\n “When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart”<\/font><\/b> (Matthew 14:13).<\/p>\n But the people needed Him, and followed Him.<\/p>\n So we have this:<\/p>\n “And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them”<\/font><\/b> (Matthew 14:14).<\/p>\n And that’s the way He is all the time.<\/p>\n Even for me.<\/p>\n Posted on November 20 from Tucson, AZ.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Which is far less than Jesus provided them way back when: “And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full” (Matthew 14:20). Not just tidbits, barely enough to tide them over. Oh no! This bread-and-fish meal filled all of them. But the disciples had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-matthew","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-5E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}