Mark and the other insiders
kept a careful catalog
of the Lord’s provision.
Four thousand fed here
five thousand fed there.
Even so, they eventually
lost count.
You might as well
try to tally
the grains of sand
that edge the sea
as track the Lord’s
miraculous provision.
After all
Jehovah-jireh is
his middle name.
Yet, the minute need
rings our doorbell and
we stare down at
our empty hands
rather than look
to the God-man
who holds
the pitcher of plenty
ready to pour it out
should any believer ask.
Blind as we can be
I wonder when we
will finally understand
that little is much
in God’s hand.
Mark 8:14–26