Glorious Riches in Christ Jesus

Meditations for Seeking the Life in Christ

The Gospel of John 

July 18, 2024

Glorious Riches in Christ Jesus

“There’s a young boy here with five barley loaves and two fish”

John  6:9a

The Bible is a continuous story of God working to redeem His people. John, as well as the Apostle Paul, was a master at weaving the themes of the Old Testament redemptive story into the life of Jesus and his New Covenant church. The feeding of the multitude, which is told in all four of the Gospels, is an example.

John mentions Passover at the beginning of his account of this miracle. John is showing us that Jesus is the Messiah, and he is leading his people out of slavery to sin, just as Moses led the people out of Egypt in the first exodus. Mentioning the Passover and by setting the scene in the wilderness, John connects Jesus to the exodus. In the first Passover and exodus, the people were in the wilderness and had nothing to eat, and God provided manna from Heaven. Here, in the wilderness, Jesus distributed food to the people. 

This passage presents us with solid food for our devotional time. We all experience times when we don’t have enough of: (insert your own need). Andrew is a good example for us in such times as he went to Jesus with what he had: “There’s a young boy here with five barley loaves and two fish” (John 6:9a). When we find that we are lacking something in our life, like Andrew, we can look around and gather what we do have and give it to God.

My Takeaway: Then we can choose by faith to trust God to take it from there and fulfill his promise to “supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19).

Sē’lah

 

(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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