(John 6:5) "Looking up, Jesus saw the crowds approaching and said to Philip, ' Where can we buy some bread for these people to eat?'. He said this only to put Philip to the test; he himself knew exactly what he was going to do. " So many times in our lives we are constantly troubled with questions when in the mist of difficult moments, and like Philip, we too are being tested, our faith challenged , to see what or whom we rely on. Many of us place our dependency on all else except God, Jesus.
We trust financial institutions with our money, medical institutions with our health. We depend on governments to run our country, protective services to provide safety. We rely on schools to educate us, family and friends to comfort us. However, all these have failed us one way or another, at times we have either, lost our money to financial institutions hence the economic crisis the world is in, discovered that our health problems have not been solved either it is suppressed or a new one arises, we find that our governments are not running the country the way they are supposed to, just look at any country in the world there is always some 'political' problem, we find that crime is increasing everywhere, our schools are troubled, many dropouts and high failure rates and many families are broken.
Why? Because we fail to realize that our trust should be in Christ Jesus, Him and Him alone. In times of difficulty, we are often faced with questions just as Philip, but Jesus shows him and us that He is the answer, the Savior.
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