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Don’t Let Your Food Go To Waste
Mark 8:14-21 says, “14Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf. 15And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod. 16And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread. 17And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened? 18Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember? 19When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve. 20And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven. 21And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?”
The best way to explain the multiplication of the disciples is by looking at the miracle that is common in all four gospels: the feeding of 5,000+ with five loaves of bread and two fish. Bread represents the Word, and fish represents the souls of men. The Word is blessed, received, broken and given to someone else. As the true, uncompromising Word is received, it breaks who you are to take upon yourself the identity of Jesus Christ, and then you give that Word to someone else, indicating that you have overcome the enemy by the blood of the Lamb and the Word of your testimony (Revelation 12:11).
Each basket was for each of the twelve disciples so that they would have food to sustain them on their next journey in Him. None of the baskets were to go to waste! If you eat breakfast, chances you are will be hungry for lunch, and even though you eat lunch, at some point you will be hungry for supper. You will be hungry again at some point, and you will have to have something to fill you up. If you do not feed yourself with the spiritual bread that miraculously multiplies, then you will go after the leaven of the Pharisees and Herod. You will look to religion or politics to satisfy rather than the bread that Christ serves! He gives to you and it only expands to win others to Him, but we let the fragments go to waste when it brings fulfillment and change. God can take a little and make a lot out of it if we are willing to give Him everything we have!