Twenty loaves of barley and
unnumbered fresh ears of grain that feed a hundred foreshadow a boy with five
loaves and two fish that feed five thousand. Theologians apply eschatological
significance to the feeding stories recorded in the Bible but they might not need
to do that if we were more familiar with hunger. A good number of us are well
fed enough to diet. But in these stories God provides real food not as some
future kingdom come down but as a real need satisfied by real food in the real
here and now. Again some make sense of these stories by saying the real miracle
is in the sharing and not some magical multiplying of meager resources but
however you do the math the meal was enough that the satisfied multitude
asked for doggie bags. I’ve been on the receiving end of such sharing and it
does not discount the miraculous moving of God to multiply what is not into
what can be and in that miracle we are always well fed.
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