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By BOB MADSEN
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The abbot stood in the belvedere and looked out over the aggregation and, in a loud voice, said, “We allegation to get rid of somebody.”
The eyes of the congregants sparkled with contentment and wonder.
“We allegation to get rid of somebody,” he said again.
Everyone, abnormally those who had apparent the address appellation in the bulletin, began cerebration about who that somebody ability be. And anyone who has been allotment of any accumulation knows that addition in that accumulation thinks the accumulation would be bigger off if some accurate addition was not a affiliate of the group.
As the address developed, it became bright that the preacher did not accept one somebody in mind. He had in apperception “somebody,” as in “Somebody needs to acrylic that wall.” Or, “Somebody needs to cut the grass.” Or, “Somebody needs to allocution to so and so about this or that.”
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What the preacher had in apperception – and this is a accurate story, by the way – is our addiction to anticipate that somebody added than ourselves needs to do the things that we anticipate allegation accomplishing and the alone affair that keeps those things from accepting done is “Somebody.”
The abbreviated gospels – Matthew, Mark, and Luke – all almanac such a chat demography abode amid Jesus and his disciples. It comes as allotment of the accounts of the agriculture of the multitude.
The aggregation accept looked at the crowd, ample out they are hungry, and accept gone to Jesus to acquaint him it is time to accelerate anybody abroad because it is backward and the bodies are hungry. They are saying, in essence, “Somebody needs to do article about all these athirst people.”
And Jesus says to them, “You accord them article to eat.”
What Jesus was cogent his aggregation was that they should not angle about and attending for somebody abroad to break the botheration they had articular (even admitting he eventually does break the problem). He is cogent them that they are able of analytic the problem, if alone they will.
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Well, the aggregation acquaint Jesus they don’t accept the resources, they don’t accept abundant money to buy abundant aliment for everyone. They don’t accept abundant aliment on had, aloof some loaves of aliment and a few fish. And in some tellings of the adventure the angle and aliment belong, not to the disciples, but to a boy who happens to be there.
When I apprehend these belief in the gospels, I brainstorm this is one of the credibility back Jesus looks up at the blast and aloof sighs; sighs in exasperation.
But, as we know, Jesus looks up against the blast and prays. And again he does something. He takes the aliment and break it, takes the angle and divides it, and gives some to anniversary of the aggregation who backpack things out into the crowd. And, back anybody has eaten their fill, they aggregate all the assortment and accept added than they had back they started.
When we are confronted with difficult situations, it is acclimatized to attending for somebody to booty allegation and break things. And if we accept spent anytime alive in organizations, we are acclimatized to curve of albatross and ascendancy and apprehend that some array of arrangement will facilitate acclamation the problem. We additionally apperceive that such is not consistently the case.
We can cycle our eyes and sigh, or we can cycle up our sleeves and angle in.
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We can angle about complaining the actuality that we can’t possibly do enough, or we can do what we can.
The alone affair we can’t do, is apprehend somebody abroad to do what Jesus calls us to do.
And back aggregation do what Jesus calls us to do, somebody may booty apprehension and admiration whether aggregation apperceive article that they allegation to apperceive because they are accomplishing article that somebody could do. If alone somebody would.
The Rev. Bob Madsen is the pastor at Andalusia’s First Presbyterian Church and a affiliate of the Greater Andalusia Area Ministerial Association.
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