An Appointment with Christ: Multiplication of the loaves and fishes (Mark 6:30) Part 4

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SUMMARY: The passage in Mark 6:30-34 shows the compassionate ministry of Christ Jesus. Despite wanting to rest and have fellowship with his disciples, when he saw the crowd of people waiting for him, he had compassion on them and ministered to them. This speaks to the compassionate nature of God, who is always ready to extend his hand of mercy and grace to those who seek him. Christians should focus more on the God of mercy and love, rather than the God of judgment and condemnation. We should approach God just as we are, with our burdens and sins, because the Lord Jesus Christ came to seek what was lost and is the good shepherd who pities us and wants to minister to our needs.

We have talked about that life of dependence on Christ Jesus, we have also talked about that Christ who wants us to take time to rest and to reflect with Him, who wants to be intimate with us as well as for us to be intimate with Him.

This passage says here that "the Lord took the disciples to a separate place to have fellowship with them, but when they arrived at the place where they were going to rest they discovered that the crowd had discovered where they were going to be there and they had already gone ahead and were waiting for them. Now the interesting thing is that when the Lord stumbles upon the fact that these people who have gone ahead of Him, and who are waiting for Him to teach them and bless them with their ministry, instead of Him getting upset with them because they have interfered with their time of rest, he says that the Lord had compassion on them. They say that many saw him go and recognized him and many went there on foot from the cities and arrived before them and joined him, and Jesus came out and saw a great crowd and had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd. and he began to teach them many things.”