Green Grass...

Don't you just love the precision and wonder of the word of God?

This morning I am reading John 6.
Have a look at it for yourself. Here is the story of the feeding of the 5000 men, plus women and children.
We see a dilemma. The people are hungry and Jesus tells His disciples to give them something to eat.

Let me ask you...are you hungry?

The disciples, God bless them, can only see the lack and can't see the supply sitting there in front of them.

Let me ask you...can you see the SUPPLY?

A small boy brings his lunch that his Mum packed for him, five loaves and two small fish.
Jesus tells the disciples to have the people sit down.
Sit down.
Rest.
Stop what are you are doing and sit down.

Let me ask you...are you sitting?

Then the Bible makes an interesting statement and points out to us that there was much grass in the place.
Why? Why would the Holy Spirit in inspiring and leading the writer to write, and the translator to translate, and the publisher to publish...and so on...why would the Holy Spirit determine that this detail be included?
I just love the precision of the detail that we so often overlook.

We are all hungry.
Jesus wants us to sit down.
He wants us to rest.
The place here He sits us is a place of green grass.
Why is it green? Because it is the presence of Jesus. How can it not be green?
Can you imagine the small boy who brought his packed lunch and watched as Jesus gave thanks and broke it and fed 5000 plus people. Wow! Talk about sitting in a place of green grass! Remember Mary sitting at the feet of Jesus? A place of green grass!
Many of us are rushing about trying, trying, trying to find favour with God by our trying, trying, trying. We are constantly being 'encouraged' to do this and do that, to follow this and follow that, to love this and love that, to be this and be that but our trying just does not work. Does it? I know because I did it for years, especially as a young man, and all I got was frustration.

But Jesus, today, is saying to me...'Have the people sit down.'
That's what this blog is all about...have the people sit down.

The Bible says this..."The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures... (Psalm 23: 1, 2)

Beloved people sit down.
It is a place of green pasture.
It's not about us...it's about Jesus, He is EVERYTHING your hunger will ever need. 
He is your SUPPLY!

There are three things I want you to note and then I will stop

1. John 6: 12 says that they were all filled and twelve baskets of fragments were collected. The supply was super in its abundance!
2. Ephesians 2: 4 - 7, one of my most favourite passages, says this 'But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and SEATED US with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.' Green grass indeed! Please read this more than once and allow it to seep into your very being. See His love for you even when you were dead. See His grace that has seated you in His presence together WITH Jesus. See His supply, JESUS, supplying the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us. Give Him, our God and Father, praise and glory!
3. Now hear this. Philippians 4: 19, 'And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.' This supply, is it according to your trying, or according to your obedience? NO! It is according His riches in glory in Christ Jesus! Oh! The green, green grass! Think of the Lord's Supper, Holy Communion, Lord's Communion...call it what you want. Blood, the blood of Jesus - our Righteousness. We are accepted in the presence of God, inside the veil because of Him and for no other reason. And the Bread, the body of Jesus broken on our account - our Supply...'by His stripes I am healed.'

Are you hungry? Jesus is the answer. He is the Healer for whatever your hunger is. 

Sit down in His green grass and shout the victory call with me...

Give thanks to the Lord for He is Good. Hallelujah! 

His Love, Mercy and Grace endure forever and ever, for me, for my family, for WTL, and for the families of WTL. [you can put your call, your ministry, your family, your self here]. 

AMEN and Amen.