The One Who Cares and Can Satisfy All Matt 15:32-39. Matthew 15:32-33 NET [32] Then Jesus called the disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days and they have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry since they may faint on the way.” [33] The disciples said to him, “Where can we get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy so great a crowd?” Have you ever had an experience where you so truly care for someone – friends, relative, spouse, etc – and yet very much incapacitated to help out? How frustrated can it be? There have been times, especially my early days of becoming a converted believer, when I met persons whom I have led to the Lord, and who are now having to face the challenge of meeting their daily needs, especially those whose conversion to Christianity earned them persecution and rejection from family and friends. Having led these ones to Christ, I would believe that the greatest thing had happened to them and their joy would be boundless. So it should be, right? The reality of the physical needs – food, material needs, financial needs, health needs, etc – does not disappear. Right there, I was the first point of call – of course, we would pray. And next your pocket should be a means of answered prayer. It would be exciting while you could meet such a need, being so caring and concerned. But it was not always so. Sometimes it was beyond me, but I could not escape the scene. At such times, I would pray and wish for a swap, let me brother/sister satisfied and I become in need. I supposing that my brother/sister hadn’t developed faith to wait and suffer long. I truly cared, but I could not satisfy my brother/sister. This may be so with Jesus’ disciples. And it may even be so with you. What are you going to do? Send the needy away? There you have the crowd, over 4,000 persons in the wilderness – hungry, feeble and fainting! You may care, but you cannot help. You have little or nothing!

Matthew 15:34 NET [34] Jesus said to them, “How many loaves do you have?” They replied, “Seven – and a few small fish.”

The good news? There is someone – Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who both cares and can satisfy with the bread  of life. What is that little thing in your pocket or hand? Let the master Jesus to bless it and that will be all-sufficient! Learning this lesson from this scripture, I humbled myself and learnt to point my brother/sister to the Master who chooses whom to use, and the means, to satisfy His disciples. We are not sufficient, He is the one who cares most and with whom nothing is impossible! Amen!!