Fish and Loaves and Crucifixion

One of the tasks at my 'desk' job is to prepare the pitas for a special Good Friday service at our church.

This Good Friday service is very somber and solemn, unique and unlike any other service our church holds throughout the year. It is entitled, "A Solemn Night of Worship", and is exactly that. No words are spoken, and through video, music, and communion, one full hour is clearly focused on the price Jesus bore for our sins on the cross.

Neary 1,000 people attend, and so my job is to turn 700 circular pita breads rounds into 1,400 broken bite size pieces.

During these past two years, I spend my 'bread-breaking time' focusing my own heart on Jesus' brokenness, and praying for the evening's events.

Today I caught my mind wandering to the story of the loaves and fish, and contemplating how those fish and loaves fed so many. It is quite a miraculous and surprising story.

How did Jesus take five loaves and two fish and feed 5,000 hungry people?

But that's what Jesus does.

That's the miracle of how one man, the Son of God and the Son of man, pays once for all of our sin. He takes care of the multitudes.

The bread was broken. He gave thanks. And it fed the multitudes.

His body was broken. He gave thanks. And it covers the multitudes.

Throughout this day, I will give thanks for the God of ample supply never quits providing for us. He cares that we are close to Him, and will use any means necessary to compel us. Physical food, spiritual food - He is in the business of taking One and providing for all.

May your Easter weekend be filled with ample supply for everything you have need of.

God Bless and Cover you, dear friend.