The miracle Christ works today is for us. We are all part of the crowd that needs food. We all need nourishment, and are all starving for God. He is the only one who can answer all our needs. We are confronted with so much that claims that it can satisfy us and it does for a while but then it goes. Even at times, our experience of God can be like that. We are filled with good feelings and even He answers our prayers. Then all the sudden it can seem to go wrong. We don’t feel anything and prayers go forever without seeming to be heard.
God lets us experience hunger for Him. He wants us to desire Him. We can get distracted with his things, but what will really satisfy us is Him. Today he offers the people this bread and they want to crown Him king, but he flees into the mountains. He doesn’t want to be desired for what He gives, but rather for who He is as He loves each one of us.
