God's YoYo

 

God’s YoYo

Exodus 19:3a “And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain,” 

Exodus 19:8b “And Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord.”

Matthew 14:19 “And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.”

     I saw Mom cutting up the meat for her girls.  Too big of chunks and they could choke.  She ran to the oven to get more.  “Too hot!” she said warning little hands.  Oven mitts on, dino nuggets came next.  Complete with dippy dippy sauce. They got smiles on their faces.

     Jesus’ 5000 got happy and sat in the grass.  Bellies full they returned from where they came.  Success in sending the multitude away?  Perhaps a current picture we see in the moment He took before sending out the twelve to distribute.

     “He brake.”  Or He broke up the bread.  What He received from a little boy’s hand, He separated into smaller bites.  Jesus with outstretched arms did this a lot.  His pattern of breaking signifies Him as the Wonder Bread authority.

      Moses was a runner.  Up and down the mountain, he was physically fit for an eighty-year-old!  God gave him the goods and Moses was faithful to relay the message to a people who could not touch the mountain.  One would think it more expedient if Moses passed out Bic pens and told them to take notes.  But that was not God’s way.  He trusted the prophet.  Receive and disseminate.  Moses had his charge which he executed beautifully.

     Aren’t we all prophets in a sense today?  Oh yah, not in “Thus saith the Lord” with a current word.  But we can quote scripture aptly applied it to the situation at hand.

Proverbs 15:23 “A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!”

     Thus, we hide the word in our heart.  First that we don’t sin against the Lord, but also to pull it up from the basement when situation warrants.  “Look here what I found!”  Outsiders wonder while the family gazes at the familiar pictures.  We must remind them.

     Bread from Heaven we receive whenever we open our Bibles in spiritual understanding.  Such heavy chunks!  Walking through the Master’s teaching gets a little deep sometimes.  Little ones of faith about us have questions.  To lay the sirloin upon them when they need regurgitation is not beneficial.  Why speak in mysteries when they need simple words on their level?

     So Jesus has tasked us to take the hard stuff and explain as any good teacher would.  “Break bread.”  A skill all of us must learn.

     Moses was a gopher.  Go for this, go for that.  “Yes, Sir”  He brought down what no other man could carry.  He was the one called for that time.  Have you been called for a specific time?

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