There was one thing about Jesus that is hard to escape. Wherever He went, He attracted crowds of people. They probably came to Him for a variety of reasons, some to find something, some to see the attraction, some to deride, some to find fault, and some for curiosity. The people in the crowd of today's reading are spoken of this way:
"Jesus went on from there and walked beside the Sea of Galilee. And he went up on the mountain and sat down there. 30 And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them, 31 so that the crowd wondered, when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel."
The next verse goes on to say that they had been with Jesus for 3 days already, so these were folks that were into what He was doing and saying. At least most of the fault-finders and curiosity-seekers had probably checked out and gone home by now.
I see at least 4 things about that crowd:
They came, they brought, they were awed, and they glorified God. What a recipe for my life each day as I come in this early morning hour.
And there was one final thing that spoke of the crowd at the end of the reading:
"and they were satisfied"
Sure they had been physically fed by The Master, but they went away with much more than that. They had seen and heard and received. The food that had satisfied their stomachs would soon pass away, but the other things that were made known to them would last forever.
How about me in that crowd?
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