Matthew 7:25-27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

While I was watching the news this morning the headlines seemed to be filled with people who are unstable. I cannot help but wonder how the word spoken to us by Jesus relates to the actions of these people who do violence, no matter where it is done. The foundation of sand is unstable. The life one builds on anything but the Rock is unstable.

So many times we want to point at our great enemy Satan and blame him for the evil in the world. It seems that the fallen nature of man is capable of great evil without urgings from the enemy. Jesus did not point to the structure of the house as the problem. Design had nothing to do with the fall. It was and is about any life build without Jesus as the foundation. All, no matter how poorly designed or richly designed are at risk of collapse.

I hear words like “He was brought up in a Christian home.” Just because you see a house built on good foundations does not mean you will build your own upon the same Rock. So often we look to our own foundations and assume that those who were afforded the protection of our roof would continue therein. That is presumptuous and unwise.

Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Providing cover is not training.

Matthew 14:20 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.

This was the results of Jesus blessing five loaves of bread and two fish. Twelve full baskets were left over after feeding five thousand men, plus an undisclosed number of women and children. Much has been said about this event. Many different teachings have been produced from these passages.

I could focus on the five loaves, or the two fish. Good teaching materials there. I could mention the number twelve. That one never gets old. I could mention the endless bounty of the Lord, His inexhaustible His storehouse. But something new struck me today about the progress of how the blessing got from five loaves and two fish to twelve baskets.

The increase came from the sharing. The baskets were not full at the beginning, they were full at the end. No mention was made of the increase until after all had shared in the blessing.

This is the perfect example of how the gospel of Jesus Christ works. The increase come from the sharing of the gospel. You take, you eat, you are filled, and then you pass on the blessing. The increase comes from the sharing.

We talk about miracles and would love to see some of those memorable moments talked about in scriptures. Some say the days of miracles are over. Maybe for them it has because they have not done the one thing that produces the greatest increase, they have not shared the gospel.

Want to see a miracle?

It is in the sharing.