Mrs Vicky Mutchler
Pastor's Wife
Grand View Baptist Church
Beavercreek, OR
Leave it all to Jesus
All of us want Jesus to take care of our health, our families, and everything else that has to do with our day to day lives on this earth. But do we also want Jesus to take care of the things that really matter most of all? Do we weigh in the balance of eternal value all that we do? There is one desperate need that you and I will always have : forgiveness. Just look back over this past week and see how desperate that need is. How many times did we use our minds, our mouths and our hands to please and honor God? How many times did we fail? Now there’s a problem far greater than paying bills, a change in the weather or getting rid of the flu. And yes, Jesus has the solution for it—his mercy and forgiveness. Jesus is there to receive you and me and to give us his best miracle for this life and the next one. The same Jesus, who so miraculously fed the thousands with so little... says to every troubled and burdened soul: “...I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. “John 6:35
Everything comes from God. If we aren’t thinking we tell our children that milk comes from cows...rain comes from clouds and flowers come from seeds. Actually...they all come from God.
I remember when I was a child and we would go to my grand parents home for Thanksgiving or Christmas. At that time my grand father was not a Christian and he would be so angry when my dad would ask the blessing on the food. He would “in no uncertain terms” explain that he was the one that should be thanked for the food, because he was the one that provided it by working hard….not GOD!
So does the fact that we’re fed, clothed, and housed better than any other nation on earth, the fact that seeds planted in our soil turn into wheat and corn and garden vegetables, the fact the sun shines on us each day and the clouds open up letting rain come down, the fact that what a kid at McDonalds makes is more than the annual salary of half the men on this planet. But best of all, coming from Jesus is his unending forgiveness for our sins, his wise and loving guidance in every detail of our lives, his strength and comfort for every rough day of our lives, and his taking us someday to live forever with him in the joys and glories of heaven. That’s what Jesus’ miracle of feeding over 5,000 souls with a little boy’s lunch says to us this day. That is why, for those other days still to be given to us you and I really can leave it all to Jesus.
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