Do What Jesus Tells You To Do

In the miracle of Jesus feeding the 5,000 men (plus women and children) with 5 small barley loaves of bread and two small pieces of fish, we see more than just the power of Jesus as God. We also see how we are to do ministry (how we are to pass out the fish and the bread) today. It is a 4-step process. In my last two postings we saw steps one and two:

START WITH WHAT YOU HAVE!

GIVE WHAT YOU HAVE TO JESUS!

Today we learn step three in the process which is:

DO WHAT JESUS TELLS YOU TO DO!

Once the disciples gave the fish and the bread to Jesus, we learn that in Mark 6:39-40, Jesus commanded them to have the people sit down in orderly groups. I doubt this seemed to make much sense to those 12 guys who knew they only had 5 loaves and 2 fish to feed a crowd of perhaps up to 25,000 people. But often God asks us to do things that don't make sense in our own feeble, human minds.

I doubt it made much sense to Joshua and the people of Israel when God gave the battle plan to conquer the city of Jericho. They were to march around the city one time every day for 6 days and then do the same thing on day 7, only 7 times that day. But Joshua and the people did what God told them to do and the walls came tumbling down. The disciples did what Jesus told them to do that day on the hillside in Bethsaida and the food just kept multiplying.

Two postings ago I challenged you to make a list of everything that you have. In yesterday's posting I challenged you to one by one give each item on your list to Jesus. Today I challenge you to begin the ongoing process of taking each item on the list that you have now given to Jesus and ask Him this question:

"Jesus, what do you want me to do with this? How do you want me to use this for your glory?"

DO WHAT JESUS TELLS YOU TO DO!