Sometimes You Have To Wait...

Mark 8:1-10 (MSG) says "At about this same time he again found himself with a hungry crowd on his hands. He called his disciples together and said, “This crowd is breaking my heart. They have stuck with me for three days, and now they have nothing to eat. If I send them home hungry, they’ll faint along the way—some of them have come a long distance.” His disciples responded, “What do you expect us to do about it? Buy food out here in the desert?” He asked, “How much bread do you have?” "Seven loaves,” they said. So, Jesus told the crowd to sit down on the ground. After giving thanks, he took the seven bread loaves, broke them into pieces, and gave them to his disciples so they could hand them out to the crowd.

They also had a few fish. He pronounced a blessing over the fish and told his disciples to hand them out as well. The crowd ate its fill. Seven sacks of leftovers were collected. There were well over four thousand at the meal. Then he sent them home. He himself went straight to the boat with his disciples."

This scripture has several points to be made but what I would like to bring out in this short blog is a portion from the very beginning of this scripture.

Jesus is talking and he says "This crowd is breaking my heart. They have stuck with me for three days, and now they have nothing to eat..."

and then later in the chapter we read where Jesus blessed and miraculously fed "well over four thousand" people with a few loaves of bread and a few fish!

The thought that I want to bring out in this is the idea that after three days of listening, after three days of going without food the people began to break the heart of Jesus! He knew they were hungry physically and that they had to be fed...

You see a human body can only go so long without food and water!

And I believe Christians must be fed spiritually as well! I believe we must feed ourselves daily, in fact the Lord's prayer teaches us to pray "give us today our daily bread.." and again in Matthew 4:4 it says

"People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God."

So, by the words of these scriptures you see it's very important that we are fed spiritually as well and now to our point!

Sometimes, we have to wait on God before we get what we need!

You see I feel like there are a lot of so called Christians that want God to feed us like a fast food restaurant! We go to church, we get our miracle and then we leave! All on our time and when we want it!

But God don't work like that..
You see his ways are higher than ours, his thoughts are higher than ours and he knows the plan he has for us!

God wants us to make him a priority! God wants us to show him that we need him! Because we were made to worship him and give him glory, and by waiting on him we can show him our faithfulness and commitment!

God doesn't always ask us to wait upon him but sometimes he does and just like these scriptures when we reach the heart of God then he meets us where we are. Then he feeds us, then he does miracles and changes our lives!

So, my challenge for you is this, if you've been waiting on an answer, if you've been praying for a loved one, if you've been looking for that miracle, don't give up, GET HUNGRY!

Because when we get hungry we will move the heart of God and then he will move in our lives! So, don't give up, wait on God and maybe today or tomorrow will be your "third day"

-Pastor Phil
One Way Student Ministries
www.onewaysm.org