Strohmeyer House will be featured through students and staff taking part at our Sunday worship service. The theme chosen by the student body is that of the feeding of the five thousand. (Trinity Lutheran College, Ashmore).
That account is a really well known as one of the highlights during Jesus' ministry where after a long day of teaching about the Kingdom of God, Jesus directs his disciples to feed the crowd. You can just imagine the reaction ... what? how? The disciples saw the crowd. They saw the problem. They saw the impossible task just asked of them. They counted up the cost and were not prepared to pay the price. Too much to ask!
Jesus showed another way of seeing what lay before them. Asking for a volunteer, a young boy came forward an offered his lunch. What took place after that has become the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand. Could the miracle have been that a small offer to help out others, created a reaction in other people to do something like that as well, resulting in the realization that there was ALREADY so much unrealized food right there!
When we offer even a small thing to God, under His blessing it creates a ripple effect. God attributes to give our actions a kind of momentum that blesses others and returns to us with far more than what we gave in the first place (just as it was the case with the young boy). I call it 'tapping into generosity,'
How much need is in the world!? We see it every day on the news channels. The need is overwhelming. But what about our own circle of influence? I would like to invite you to try out an experiment for yourself. Change what you look at, what you see, when we release a blessing under the banner of God's ability to do great things. That's kingdom of God thinking. That's seeing possibilities, rather than problems. That's seeing with the eyes of Jesus.
What can you give unto the Lord for His work within the Kingdom of God to make a difference in people's lives ... remember the wise saying: from little things, big things grow!
Rev.'D
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