What "Five and two" means

"There is a boy here who has FIVE barley loaves and TWO fish, but what are they for so many?" John 6:9

In John 6 we read the story of Jesus feeding the five thousand. Often we read through the story but don't pay much attention to where the food came from. The boy committed what little he had to the Lords use. To any normal person five loaves and two small fish seem like nothing in a crowd that size. Yet the Lord used them to perform one of the most well known miracles. His small offering was used to feed five thousand men PLUS all of the women and children.

As Christians we need to take whatever we have to offer and commit it to the Lords use. We are to hold nothing back from the Lord. Just as the boy in John 6, if we give him what we have to offer, whether it be time, money, our homes, our lives, whatever it is, if we give it to Him He will use it in ways we could never imagine.

I am going to follow this example. I am offering everything to my Lord. After all, He deserves nothing less.  He gave His all for me. So in return I will give my life to Him.

Will you follow this example? Will you entrust the Lord with all you have to offer and rely on Him to do great things with it? After all, anything we have is only a result of the Lord being good to us. We should take all that the Lord has given us and place it under His control. He will take care of the rest.