Insightful, Biblical Devotions
Send the people away so that they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.” 37 But he answered, “You give them something to eat.” They said to him, “That would take more than half a year’s wages! Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat?” (Mark 6:35-37).
The disciples recommended that the multitude should be sent away. Let’s release them to go and find their own food, they said. One of them said, the cost is too much, we can’t feed them. It’s impossible, it will take more than six months wages to feed them. They kept thinking logically on how to overcome this situation. “That would take more than half a year’s wages! Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat?” How many of us, whenever we are faced with what seems impossible, try to work it out logically?
The disciples had walked with Jesus and seen miracles, but they were trying to work things out logically. When you put logic into the picture, you push the supernatural out. You push the miracle out. There cannot be any logic where there’s supernatural. The problem with many of us is, our first thinking is logic: our own resources, and our own strength. How do we work this out with this situation? You see, faith and logic cannot work together. The disciples were coming with their logic, but Jesus was saying, you feed them.
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