| The Secrets of a Beautiful Life |
Chapter 9 |
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This puts upon us who know the love and grace of Christ a great responsibility. These who are in need or in sorrow about us must be blessed through us. The responsibility for helping, comforting, lifting up, these weak, sad or fallen ones, is with us. Yet we seem to have nothing with which to answer their cravings. We have only five barley loaves, and what are they among so many?
We may get further instruction concerning the manner of blessing the world with our meager resources, from the way the disciples fed these thousands. First, they brought their barley loaves to Christ. If they had begun feeding the people with what they had, without bringing it to the Master, it could have fed only a few. We also must bring our paltry resources to Christ, and put them into his hands. This is always the first thing in doing good. Without Christ’s blessing, even the largest resources of abilities will avail nothing. Christ can do nothing with us until we have really given ourselves into his hands. But when we have done this, no one on earth can tell the measure of good that may be wrought even by the smallest abilities.
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