Please pass the bread

I heard a podcast this week that could have the effect of making me feel guilty for having enough – but I choose to take it as a challenge to go before the Lord with every decision re: giving.  The speaker said “what if when Jesus gave the bread and fish from the small boy’s lunch to the disciples to spread to the crowd – they instead had kept it and ate it themselves – very grateful for something to eat?  I have pondered this often – am I stopping the flow of God’s gifts to the world?  When people say what is God doing about the suffering in the world – do I ask – what am I doing with the resources God gave me for the suffering in the world?  Then I opened my mail today from David Wilkerson’s church – in it was an insert of a mission to the poor – named …. get this “Please Pass the Bread”

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