When Jesus blessed the bread to feed the 5000+ people he didn't multiply the whole loaves and fishes. He broke them into pieces thereby multiplying them to feed many. This is a life principle the Lord uses in His workings with us. We can see examples of this with many of the prophets, kings, and in the lives of the apostles. Three men God used as clear examples are: Moses, Paul, and Peter. Moses set out to execute the call of God he must have felt on his life, ie.to deliver Israel from the bondage of slavery. However he set out to do this in his own strength and wisdom. This didn't work out so well for him as you can read in Exodus 2. So the Lord led him to the backside of the wilderness for 40 years, serving his father-in-law. This experience prepared Moses for the leader God was needing and looking for to bring Israel out of Egypt. Paul In Acts 9 we read how Saul (Paul) was zealous for what he believed to be the righteousness of God, persecuting the Church. When he met the Lord, on the way to Damascus he turned this zeal towards preaching that Jesus is the Christ, to the Jews, thus stiring up persecution for the Church. Vs. 30 We see the brethren sending him off to Tarsus, his home town. It seems he stayed there for many years, until Barnabas went looking for him in Acts 11:25. This experience with seems to have prepared Paul, still called Saul, for the great work the Lord had prepared for him. Peter We read in the last few chapters of the Gospel of John, Peter's experience in the arrest and trial of Christ. How he had boldly declared his passionate love for Jesus in John 13:37, but then vehemently denied knowing Jesus at His trial. In John 21 We find Peter ready to go back to fishing, with some of the other disciples, when Jesus meets them on the seashore. He Jesus tests Peter's honesty in his love for Him, and Peter being broken and repentant for his sin of denying the Lord, honestly confessed his lack in his love for Jesus. We see that Jesus was satisfied with Peter's honest answers, and asked him again to follow Him, instead of going back to fishing. Peter followed and we can read the rest of the story of Peter's love for Christ in the book of Acts. May the Lord Jesus lead us out of our own strength into the strength of the Holy Spirit, as He did these men. So that Galatians 2:20 is fulfilled in our everyday life.
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