One of my college friends did a wonderful and creative thing when he proposed to his girlfriend. When he took her out for the evening, he took her from location to location for several hours. Each location they visited – a restaurant, a park, an outdoor mall – had some significance to their relationship. He took her to the location of their first date, to the location that they officially began their relationship, to the location where he first told her that he loved her, and so on. The familiarity of these places must have made his girlfriend increasingly suspicious that something significant was happening. Each connection with the past suggested that history would repeat itself and something big would happen. And, of course, it did.
This Sunday, we will look at Jesus feeding the five thousand. But this passage is about much more than Jesus simply providing a meal for a multitude. It is about Jesus systematically doing things that were familiar and nostalgic for the people of Israel. Throughout the passage He brings to their minds significant moments in their national history. And He behaves in a way that would have reminded them of one of their most beloved heroes, Moses. Just as big things happened before, something big was happening again.
Dan
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