March 8, 2012 You Feed Them

You Feed Them

Mark 6:35-37 By this time it was late in the day, so his disciples came to him. “This is a remote place,” they said, “and it's already very late. 36 Send the people away so 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 eight months of a man's wages! Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat?”

DOES GOD’S word feed you?
Sometimes in the church, people gather in smaller groups for years to study God’s Word. They like being “fed” in God’s truth this way, and so they should.
But too often the group members are reluctant to leave the group and start to feed new people in God’s Word. It’s a hard thing, isn’t it, to go from the table where you’re being fed to a place where you have to do the feeding? Often the question is, “If I’m being fed, God’s Word, why should I leave the source of my food?”
The answer to that question is in this scripture. When the disciples are concerned about the people eating, he says, “You give them something to eat.” Why?
Jesus wanted his disciples to act in the power of God’s Word to feed a meal to the crowd. He had been feeding God’s Truth to them to fill them with the Word of God to act in the power of God’s Word, and now it’s time to do God’s Word.
Why should Bible study members leave the “table” and go to feed others? As Jesus prepared his disciples, God’s Word has prepared them to act in God’s Word and feed the world.


Pause and consider God’s Word is to feed you that you may feed others.