Emphasis Preaching Journal

If you can handle a crowd of excited people in the desert, armed with only a dozen dedicated followers, five loaves, and a couple of fish, you can hardly be surprised if the world is beating a path to your door. Jesus tells us not to become so obsessed with the extraordinary that we miss the true message. The feeding of a huge number of people is miraculous, but temporal. Giving people food for their souls is eternal. An artist encouraged his students to allow their eyes to fall on any one thing within sight, then to close their eyes for five minutes.