Give Ye Them to Eat
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Jesus did not seek to attract the people to Him by gratifying the desire for luxury.
It was humble fare that had been provided; the fishes and barley loaves were the daily food of the fisher folk about the Sea of Galilee. Christ could have spread before the people a rich repast, but food prepared merely for the gratification of appetite would have conveyed no lesson for their good. Christ taught them in this lesson that the natural provisions of God for man had been perverted.
If men today were simple in their habits, living in harmony with nature's laws, as did Adam and Eve in the beginning, there would be an abundant supply for the needs of the human family. But selfishness and the indulgence of unnatural taste have brought sin and misery into the world, from excess on the one hand, and from want on the other.
. It is God's rain and air and sunshine that cause it to put forth, first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. Mark 4:28