Mark 8:1-21
I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:
And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness? And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.
When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve. And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven. And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?
Reason why we are so stupid-
A. We fail to know God and His Word
There is more to God beyond what we know. We examine the miracles that God performed, we go beyond the normal understanding. It is not just being fed with bread, but that God is the provider of all things including the enternal life. More importantly, we fret when we lost our provision in daily life; we lost faith the He will ultimately provide. We worry about daily provisions, when these should be the least of our worries. We need to have faith and trust the Lord to provide while to focus our attention on the heavenly things of enter all life.
God has compassion; He provided for all and fed the multitude when there was no food. God will have compassion towards us; we just need to have faith and patience that he will provide. We worry, we are stupid. We live like spiritual orphans as though we have no father, we are stupid. We are stupid because we chose to be; forgetting that God is companionate and powerful. Put God first and have faith.
B. We fail to see things through the word of God
Many things happen in the world, and we use our own understanding to interpret the world. God's theology is given to us for the reason, that we can understand the things of the world through the lens of God. People follow great leaders of the world and their thinking; but they forgot that they already have the greatest teaching in the Bible. Only when we know theology then can we see the world in the light of God's word, and everything will make sense in spiritual sense.
We also make decisions according to our own wisdom and understanding; we never bring God into our decision making. What is His will for us? What is the Bible say about what we are going to do? Would the decision we made be a good testimony to us as Christian? Did we consider all these questions before we make decisions? How stupid can we be?
If only we rely on God, life would be earlier for us. We are limited in our understanding, God alone should should be our only yardstick for all.
