Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread wouldn't be enough for each of them to have a little."

One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, "There's a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish - but what are they for so many?"

Jesus said,

"Have the people sit down."

There was plenty of grass in that place; so they sat down.

The men numbered about five thousand.

John 6:7-10 CSB

5,000 men, maybe 10,000 people all up.

That's a crowd!

5 loaves & 2 fish.

The size of the problem made the resources that they had seen so small.

Ever had that happen?

In the middle of that Jesus asks his team to just do something so ordinary.

Just ask everyone to sit down.

If I was one of the disciples I think you'd have heard "why bother - there's nothing here - let's split this kid's lunch between us and get moving"

Maybe Jesus wanted them to go into the crowd, to see people, to ask them just to sit, to pass the message that "Jesus said that we should all just take a seat on the grass".

See people.

Keep doing the ordinary.

Sometimes that's all we can do - when what's in front of us seems so big, so unfixable, and our resources so small.

#seepeople

#dotheordinary

#sharewhatJesussaid