The Twelve Sent Out and Feeding the Five Thousand

The Twelve Sent Out and Feeding the Five Thousand
Luke 9.1-17

When a new business starts up, it’s often the dream of one person that makes it happen. But if the business succeeds, more people need to come on board. Not just to do the detailed work that the founder hasn’t got time for, but to share in the planning, to take responsibility. Often this is difficult and painful for the visionary who began it all. But it’s necessary: one person can’t do it all, and can’t be there for ever.

How much more vital was it that Jesus share his life and work with his closest followers. He knew, though they didn’t yet, that he wouldn’t be with them very long. He knew he was shortly to meet a terrible fate. By the end of Luke 9 he will have begun to explain this to his followers – though they never understood it, or believed it, until afterwards. But already he was beginning to share his vocation with them. They needed to learn to do what he was doing, to trust God like he trusted God. Of course, when they tell people about God’s kingdom, they will be talking about Jesus, not themselves. But Jesus has commissioned them to share his work...

Taken from Luke for Everyone – by Tom Wright