feeding the five thousand

In churches, it is very common to hear exhortation on the boy giving all he had,his pieces of fish and his loaves of bread. Two things I learned from this passage of scripture. First, the bread and fish the boy had came from Jesus in the first place. Second, there was no specific account on the quality of the bread and the fish. Was it stale bread? two-day old? moldy at that? What about the fish? Was it of the best quality? My point is, when the fish and bread were given to Jesus, it was transformed to superb quality. In the hands of Jesus, the fish and bread became the best.

Same with our efforts on anything. We may, in the eyes of the world lack the standards they have set but when we turn our all to Jesus, humbly recognizing that the very things we offer to God came from Him, He radically transforms these offerings so that they will be of the best quality, far beyond what we had, have and can even attain in our finite strength.

Praise God to Whom all blessings flow.