# 496 - Today's Du-votional comes from: Mr 8:18-21 "Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember? "When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did you take up?" They said to Him, "Twelve." Also, when I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of fragments did you take up?" And they said, "Seven." So He said to them, "How is it you do not understand?"
I may be making more out of this than I should. I mean the simple lesson here is stop worrying about your physical needs, Jesus is able to meet them. But I can't help but hear His repetition of the numbers. He makes the disciples repeat two of the numbers. Seven and twelve.
Why does He want that to sink in? Those first twelve baskets of leftovers were given to the disciples....the church. Twelve is the number of the church. The seven baskets are symbolic of God dealing with the world. I think He wants His disciples and us to understand that He supplies the true bread first to His church, who in turn distribute it to the world. In both cases the bread came from Jesus.
Beware of the bread that comes from any other source, beware of false teaching. Jesus will provide the Bread (the Word of God) for His church. “Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.” (Mt 4:4) God's Word (Bread) is sufficient. Don't add to it or take away from it. Re 22:18 For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Father, thank You for the miraculous conveyance and preservation of Your Word. It truly is all we need to know and live by. In Jesus name, Amen
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