Bring it all to Jesus!

Matthew 15:29-37

Jesus reached the shores of the Sea of Galilee, and he went up into the hills. He sat there, and large crowds came to him bringing the lame, the crippled, the blind, the dumb and many others; these they put down at his feet, and he cured them. The crowds were astonished to see the dumb speaking, the cripples whole again, the lame walking and the blind with their sight, and they praised the God of Israel.

But Jesus called his disciples to him and said, ‘I feel sorry for all these people; they have been with me for three days now and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them off hungry, they might collapse on the way.’ The disciples said to him, ‘Where could we get enough bread in this deserted place to feed such a crowd?’ Jesus said to them, ‘How many loaves have you?’ ‘Seven’ they said ‘and a few small fish.’ Then he instructed the crowd to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves and the fish, and he gave thanks and broke them and handed them to the disciples who gave them to the crowds. They all ate as much as they wanted, and they collected what was left of the scraps, seven baskets full.

Food for thought!

We have a lot to learn from this passage. Let's begin with the crowds. The text says that they came to Jesus, "bringing the lame, the crippled, the blind, the dumb and many others; these they put down at his feet."

These people just got hold of every sick person they could lay their hands on, and brought them all to Jesus. Sometimes we have to do exactly that: bring it all to Jesus: our messes, our shortcomings, our broken lives, our problems and just about everything, and leave them all at the feet of Jesus, and let him "cure" them all.