Matthew 14:18<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe said, \u2018Bring them here to Me.\u2019 \u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The disciples were not wrong when they identified the bankruptcy of their situation. In fact, their analysis was excellent and correct. It was because of the accurate analysis that they wanted Jesus to send the people away. However, they failed to understand what their roles were as disciples of Jesus. Jesus never expected them to feed the multitudes without Him. Even Jesus knew they couldn\u2019t do it. However, what He expected them to understand and to do was to bring the people to Jesus, because they should have known that solutions and miracles do not come from men but from Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our roles are not to solve people\u2019s problems by ourselves. Our roles are to introduce men to Jesus and then let Jesus do the miracle. It\u2019s an entirely faulty reasoning and broken foundation of life to even contemplate being a solution to any man\u2019s problem. What is Man to provide a lasting solution for another man? The answer lies with Jesus, and for those who understand this principle, it manifests in the reality and practice of their lives. Our greatest joy and hope to positively impact humanity is in understanding our role. Jesus is asking us to bring men to Him. Let\u2019s stick to that role. Let\u2019s step aside and watch Jesus do what only He can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cO Lord, help me to always limit myself by understanding my role. Help me to learn to step aside and give You room Jesus, so that You can do what only You can do. And free me from any sense of self-ability that could rob me of the dependency on You. I ask this in Your name. Amen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Matthew 14:18 \u201cHe said, \u2018Bring them here to Me.\u2019 \u201d The disciples were not wrong when they identified the bankruptcy of their situation. In fact, their analysis was excellent and correct. It was because of the accurate analysis that they wanted Jesus to send the people away. However, they failed to understand what their roles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-reflections-from-matthew"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Reflections-from-Matthew.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3983,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions\/3983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}