# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S940
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 357

Him, and — He gave them their food in due season!
Do we always see the Savior’s hand behind the food we
eat? The softening rains of springtime, the welcome
warmth of summer, the ripening rays of the autumn sun —
He holds them all in the hollow of His hand; and by the
miracle of His providing love He transforms them into
daily bread for all His children, even as beyond the Sea
of Galilee He multiplied the loaves of barley.

A striking instance of man’s complete dependence
upon God also for the things of the body and of the
Savior’s ability and willingness to provide is given us in
the following Gospel story.

Joun 6:1-14

After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee,
which is the sea of Tiberias. And a great multitude fol-
lowed Him, because they saw His miracles which He
did on them that were diseased. And Jesus went up into
@ mountain, and there He sat with his disciples. And the
Passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.

When Jesus then lifted up His eyes and saw a great
company come unto Him, He saith unto Philip, “Whence
shall we buy bread, that these may eatP” And this He

One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother,
saith unto Him, “There is a lad here which hath five
barley loaves and two small fishes, but what are they

disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down;

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