INSIGNIFICANTLY SIGNIFICANT.

John 6: 5-8

5When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?" 6He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do.

7Philip answered him; "Eight months' wages would not buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!"

8Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up,

 9"Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?"As much as we marvel at the miracle of feeding the 5000, there is one small yet significant thing that many of us miss out on. The boy. Without the boy Jesus would not have had anything to work with.

Maybe the boy left home early that morning and his mother parked for him some lunch knowing that he would probably have a long day. So here he is in the crowd amongst the people who are probably pushing and shoving because all want to see what Jesus will do. Now probably because he was a small lad he is able to weave his way through the crowd and he gets to the front. It’s probably at this time that Jesus is asking Andrew where to buy bread to feed all the people and in panic he probably snatches the boy’s lunch.

We all have an identity and it’s amazing that Andrew never bothers to find out the little lads name. All he takes note of is his lunch and he also does not see the potential in that because he says "Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?"

Have you ever felt like you were nameless without an identity because of how people treat you? Maybe all they are concerned about is what you have and they never bother to get to know the real you.

Have you felt insignificant like you cannot make a difference or that what you have to offer is of no value?

When the boy left home that morning, he had no idea that the Lord would need his little lunch to feed 5000 people. Andrew the disciple may not have noticed the lad’s potential or the potential of that which he carried and neither did he bother to find out the lads name but in the eyes of Christ the lad was very significant.

There will be times and seasons where others will not see the potential in you nor the potential in your gifting but what you have to remember is that in the eyes of God you are greatly needed in the kingdom and God will use what the world sees as insignificant to do the miraculous. What kind of feeling do you think the lad went home with on that day? I bet he ran all the way home to announce to his mother that Jesus fed 5000 people using the little lunch he had carried that day.

No one may know your name and we may never hear of you in the media or read about you in the magazines but one thing is for sure, no matter how small you may think your lunch is, as long as you are willing to surrender it to the master, He will show the world just how significant you are.

PRACTICAL APPLICATION

Begin to appreciate the 5 small loaves and the 2 small fish you have in your hands because in Gods hands you can feed a multitude