HE SPEAKS THINGS INTO BEING

DAY 111

Our text today presents a very interesting dynamic. Even though the entire discourse ends with multiplication of the loaves and fish, it is the conversation between Jesus and Philip that sits at the heart of our reflection.

This is their dialogue as captured:
Jesus turned to Philip and asked  “Where can we buy bread to feed all these people?”
Philip replied, “Even if we worked for months, we wouldn’t have enough money to feed them!”(John 6:5,7)

Note, Philip did not actually answer the question Jesus asked for he was asked ‘where’, a question soliciting an answer about a location. Yet, he responded with ‘how’- the effort required. So while Jesus spoke as though the provision was already in existence, and that there was a location with food for the multitudes as well as the money to buy it, Philip was on another plane. He was clearly focused on the absence of resources.

This is our message: when God says anything, his ability and integrity make it happen. He speaks forth the the things that are not as though they are. Thus, because he cannot lie, whatever He says is. So even if before He spoke, there was no resource to meet the required need, His word bears the capacity to create the resource.

Simply, God speaks from a dimension where things ‘are’, and that has direct implications on how we see Him.

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