New Creation Realities – 5
Children’s bread:
Mark 7:25-30 For a certainwoman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to castitunto the dogs. And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs. And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter. And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
In this story Jesus refers to healing as the “children’s bread”.
Let us look at that for today. Bread is significant because it is the very thing that sustains us. In Jesus time it was the staple food source, like today it would be hamburgers and hot dogs for Americans. In the story where Jesus feeds the five thousand we see the boy had five loaves of bread and some fishes.
What Jesus is saying here is significant because he understood the culture and the day he was living in. What a strong point to make that as sure as they needed bread every day, they will need healing as well. HE came to give them the thing that just didn’t sustain them for a day but for a life time.
In John 6 Jesus says: I am the bread of life – John 6:48.
Not only is he the eternal bread, he warns them in verse twenty six of the same chapter not to labor for the bread that perishes but rather for the food or bread that endures into everlasting life. What is the everlasting bread? Jesus is the bread from heaven that God send.
Every time after he multiplied the natural bread, they had excess and left overs. Both times they were commanded to gather the fragments. I have to come to the conclusion that when the supernatural gets a hold of the natural the result is fullness and abundance. It is the very essence of the supernatural to supply above what we will ever need to fill the natural.
The same principle is implied by Jesus when he calls them to partake of the living bread. The natural can temporarily fill you, but the eternal can permanently fill you. As the bread of life he did to himself what he did to the bread and fishes. He broke himself and multiplied himself as the bread of life so that all men can now be fed with the eternal sustenance we all need and crave. As he took the bread at the Passover meal he said: This is my body, take it and eat it.
He is more than enough. Who eats his flesh and drinks is blood will have eternal life. These statements are the things that made people turn away from him and his mission.
The bread is also the healing for the children. Healing is the children’s bread. Just as we need bread for food we need healing in our bodies. The great news are that God provided for our healing in Jesus wo is the Bread of Life.
In Isaiah 53 we read that we are healed by his stripes. His body was torn apart and beaten so that we can have healing through his brokenness. His body for our healing and his blood for the remission of our sins. He totally provided for us in Christ’ sacrifice.
Healing is the children’s bread. The response this mother gives is profound. The “crumbs” will be enough. I don’t need a whole lot, just something small will be enough. We don’t need a lot from God. Something small is always enough. The problem is that we are not desperate enough to ask for what seems to be not ours. We have become independent and feel that we have need of nothing when we are the ones that need it most.
What do you need today. Christ is universal and the bread are not just for one tribe or geographical group. HE came as the bread of heaven so all can have to eat and live. You don’t need much. Just get so desperate that you won’t be denied. He is waiting for you to ask.