What You Have Is Enough

In Luke 14:13-21, we read where Jesus takes the fives loaves and two fish his disciples have and feeds 5,000 men as well as an unnumbered amount of women and children.

What The Lord did was beyond amazing and should serve to elevate our faith in His power to provide.  But what the disciples did, although often overlooked, is important to note as well.

The disciples gave what they had, not what they wanted or what would have been expected to meet such a need, they gave what they had. Jesus accepted what little they had and accomplished something incredible.

So often we hold back giving or serving or being involved because we feel we have so little to offer.  "What difference will my contribution make?"  "No one will miss my help."  "Surely others can do better or give more."  All that may be true, but what does God want from you and what can God do with what you have to offer?

The woman in Mark 14:1-9, who broke the alabaster jar and poured perfume on Jesus, was to be remembered because "she did what she could" (v. 8).  The woman's "two small copper coins" was a greater gift than all the large silver offerings because it "was all she had" (Mark 1/:41-44).  

What you have or what you can do may not seem like much but God can multiply it to bless and it is all he wants from you. Listen carefully to the apostle Paul, "The gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have" (2 Cor 8:12).  What you have is enough. 

Jus' Sayn.