The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs!
If we all could fully understand and believe this one sentence – our lives could become very different – they could become all that they are meant to become!
God the Father KNOWS WHAT WE NEED!
He made us! He planned for us – each one of us - to make a very specific and certain contribution to the world in which he has placed us! He has every intention in seeing that we are provided with absolutely everything we need to do this, his will, his bidding – all the days of our lives!
However, since the days of Adam, Eve and the apple WE THINK THAT WE KNOW BETTER THAN GOD THE FATHER WHAT WE NEED! We thus have essentially taken God's Fatherhood away from him, preferring instead to be our own Father, to provide for ourselves what we think we need – oftentimes grasping and groveling - day in and day out- in an all but futile attempt just to survive – to make any sense out of our lives!
It doesn't have to be this way! This is why GOD THE FATHER SENT JESUS, HIS SON, OUR BROTHER, TO US - TO HELP US COME TO OUR SENSES – to see that the PROVID-ENCE of GOD THE FATHER is the very best way to go! In his life on earth, Jesus demonstrated what a successful human life could be like – a life filled with TRUST IN GOD! ACCEPTANCE OF THE FATHERHOOD OF GOD! and the living out of certain and necessary spiritual principles. This life is not all sunshine and roses, but it is not all dungeons and dragons either! Jesus shows us that our SPIRITUAL LIVES are the most important part of us – and everything that we can do to perfect this aspect of us is worth every ounce and moment of our effort!
And so, he (and his Father,) wants to FEED OUR SPIRITUAL LIVES with SPIRITUAL REALITIES that we need in order to LIVE SPIRITUALLY PLEASING AND ACCEPTABLE LIVES in the sight of God! That is why he provided the very BREAD OF SPIRITUAL LIFE: THE BODY AND BLOOD OF HIS SON JESUS to be our spiritual nourishment, our spiritual
energy, our spiritual
motivation to live and love and Jesus taught, demonstrated and then commanded!
The multiplication of the loaves and the fishes in the gospel passage relates the overabundance of SPIRITUAL GRACES AND HELPS that come to us each time we receive Jesus in the Most Holy Eucharist! IT IS AMAZING FOOD – that can make our lives so much more tolerable, livable and even joyful! It really and truly can do this!
The first reading today from the Prophet Isaiah makes very clear that there is absolutely "no charge" for coming to the source of spiritual nourishment! What we receive is priceless anyway! There is not enough money to pay for it! The water and the grain that is available for anyone to partake of, is THE VERY WORD OF GOD, and bread of ETERNAL LIFE! If we come to LISTEN to the word of God – to heedfully hear it and resolve to incorporate it into our lives, strengthened by the bread and wine that is really and truly spiritually transformed by the words of Christ and the action of the Holy Spirit at this and every Mass – then we will have all we need to STOP GRABBING AND GRASPING and keep our hands off our own will – our own way – and TRUST GOD ABSOLUTELY TO TAKE CARE OF US IN THE FATHERLY WAY THAT HE SO VERY MUCH DESIRES TO DO!
You are our "Abba," Father; you are our "Daddy" – you will feed us and take care of ALL
OF OUR NEEDS – THIS - WE - BELIEVE!
If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts!
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