Breakfast for Dinner
“Working with the
pieces”
Inspired by Pastor
Remus E. Wright
When I was younger, my
mother’s greatest culinary creation was breakfast. I especially enjoyed when
she made it for dinner. Now this was not your typical dinner. It was an
outrageously delicious blend of whatever was left in the refrigerator with a
side of scrambled eggs.
Somehow she made pieces of other meals
create one complete meal. And it was delicious!
Jesus feeding the
multitude is one of the few miracles recorded in all four of the gospels. Therefore, that moment’s impact on the
writers must have been immense!
People regularly
encounter broken, partial, and fragmented conditions.
But just because the
situation seems broken doesn’t mean that it is destroyed.
Jesus’ whole and
complete body was broken for you! (1 Corinthians 11:24) And just when his
accusers assumed His death was permanent, Jesus came back!
In the miracle of
the multitude, Jesus took the pieces of a child’s lunch to make thousands of
empty individual’s bellies full – then He gathered the pieces that were left
over for future use.
I challenge you to give God your broken pieces. In His
hands, there is wholeness and overflow. In the right hands, even leftovers -
cold and broken portions of what was once great - can be gourmet. You were
great the moment God made you and even if you feel broken – He can restore you
and make you better than you were before!
John 6:12-13 (AMP)
12 When they had all had enough, He said to His
disciples, Gather up now the fragments (the broken pieces that are left over),
so that nothing may be lost and wasted.
13 So accordingly they gathered them up, and
they filled twelve [[b]small hand] baskets with fragments left over by
those who had eaten from the five barley loaves.
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