Emphasis Preaching Journal

The five loaves and two fish, clearly not enough to feed 5,000 people, became enough when the power of Christ entered. That same message is true for us today, especially when we are faced with a task that seems overwhelming at the time it occurs. We say, "I can't do that -- I don't have enough of whatever is needed (usually faith or trust or love)." Yet, by including Christ's power we discover we do have enough. A very interesting experiment was done on some rabbits. They were kept in a special cage, fed food high in fat content, surrounded by fluorescent lighting, bombarded with emissions from microwave ovens, and they breathed smoke and other kinds of bad air that was pumped in. Several of the rabbits sickened very quickly and were close to death. But amazingly, one little rabbit with a deformed hind leg survived. He remained fat and healthy in spite of the dreadful environment. The scientists conducting the experiment became very suspicious. They had hired college students to feed the rabbits, and they strongly suspected that these students were somehow protecting the little rabbit with the deformed leg. So they set up a video camera to record the students who were coming in to feed the rabbits. Much to their amazement, they discovered that one of the students had a bad leg and wore a brace. Every time she came in to feed the rabbits, she would reach down into the cage, pick up the little rabbit with the bad leg, stroke it, love it, and talk endearingly to it. Who would ever dream that a little love would be enough to make a rabbit thrive in spite of its deadly surroundings? Who would ever dream that the little love we find within ourselves to give could have an amazing impact on our surroundings and our lives?
-- Owen-Gemoets