Here's My Lunch

“Would you consider writing a blog for our church webpage?”

My first response, “What could I possibly write that someone would want to read?”

My second response, the tried and true method of all experienced church workers stalling for time, “Let me pray about that.”

A week or so went by and I was asked again. “Still praying,” I said, “No real direction, yet.”

Another week and I was handed a laptop with a direct link to the blog setup page with my own password and complete instructions on how to submit my writings from the comfort and privacy of my own home. I lugged the laptop home and have preceded to successfully ignore it for a couple more weeks…until now.

This past Saturday the movie, “God’s Not Dead” opened in the theaters and our family was invited to go see it. WOW! The main story is about a young man who is challenged to take a stand for God. He is a freshman in college facing off against a philosophy professor. He felt inadequate, and by worldly and academic standards he was. His friends and family advised him to drop the class and not risk his reputation and future. He, however, sought to please God and in so doing he chose to stand and allow God to use the little he had to offer.

I was reminded of the young boy who offered Jesus his little lunch of bread and fish. A multitude of people stood on a hill, hungry and needing to be fed and this little boy went to the disciples and said, “You can have my lunch.” It was nothing in the face of feeding all of those people, but Jesus took that little bit offered in faith and changed the multitude. (Matthew 14:12-22)

Jesus said that we need to come to Him with the “faith of a child” (Luke 18:17). A faith that is unafraid of trying new adventures; a faith that trusts, without doubt, that his caregiver will protect and provide; a faith that believes that mountains can be moved; a faith that is willing to offer a sack lunch for the feeding of the multitudes.

Oh, how I long to be that child! God has placed each of His children on a hillside, with people desperately needing to be fed by the nourishment and fulfilling satisfaction only Christ can bring. If we stood alone, there would be little we could do, but we are not alone. Our heavenly Father stands with us, and He is waiting for each of us to offer our “lunch.”

Here is my “sack”, Lord...it is not much, but I know that with You…ALL things are possible! (Mark 10:27)