Yeast

5 January 2012

Mark 8:19-21 When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They said to him, "Twelve." "And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" And they said to him, "Seven." And he said to them, "Do you not yet understand?"

To bake bread you use yeast that you put into the bread and the yeast then grows and it releases carbon dioxide that then causes the bread to rise. To ensure that you always have a supply of yeast, you keep the yeast in a bottle and when you need it you pour the water with the yeast into the dough. It only takes a little yeast to cause the dough to rise.

When Jesus was talking to the disciples he had just taught them about the yeast of the Pharisees and how just a little bad teaching results in God’s way being thwarted. When the disciples complain they only have one old loaf of bread, He then reminds them of how He fed the thousands of hungry and there was plenty left over to be gathered up. When Jesus is involved, He takes the very little and makes it enough and to spare.

The question to you and I that Jesus asked, ‘do you understand?’ is just as valid for us as it was to the disciples then. When we have the right yeast in our life ( Jesus ) then we will grow and even have enough to spare for others, but when we expose ourselves to the wrong teachings and do not have Jesus in our life, we can never produce anything.

Be encouraged to have the yeast of Jesus Christ in your life that you can grow beyond your expectations.

David

Point to ponder: Jesus can make anything enough. 

  

Question to consider: Have you asked Jesus to make what you have enough?