Continual Burnt Offering: Daily Meditations, June 29 (6:41-42)
“When He had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, He looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to His disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided He among them all. And they did all eat, and were filled” — Mark 6:41, 42.
WHEN God brought His people of old out of Egypt, He sustained them in the wilderness during their forty years’ sojourn, providing bread from Heaven. It was therefore quite in keeping with His character as Jehovah’s Servant that our Lord should minister to the physical needs of men while here on earth. To question the reality of the miracle and to seek to account for it on merely natural grounds is to discount or even deny His divine power and authority. If we accept the truth of the divinity of Christ and acknowledge His true Deity, we need not be concerned about explaining the super naturalness of His works. In multiplying the loaves and fishes He was but doing in a few moments of time what He is constantly doing in the seas and the grain-fields of the world. This miracle was no more difficult for Him than the daily wonder of propagation of vegetable and animal life from infinitesimal seed. When the Creator and Sustainer of this diversified universe walked among men, it was to be expected that mighty works would be manifested in Him (see Matt. 14:2). It was in keeping, too, with His Messiahship that He should satisfy the poor with bread (Psa. 132:15).
―Samuel Longfellow.