The Power Of RestSample

I love the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 because God’s provision didn’t stop when everyone was satisfied—there was overflow! The definition of the double portion is having more than enough. Enough is being satisfied, but 12 baskets were being left over after the people were satisfied is the double portion, more than enough. Please let that difference settle into your consciousness for a bit. 

I do not have time here to go into much depth on how Jesus brought the power of the Kingdom into that situation to accomplish the first part of this story—5,000 people being satisfied. Instead, I want to focus on the double portion, the overflow, and how it happened in this story. Yes, it is an amazing story—potentially 20,000 people, counting women and children, all satisfied, wow! But there is more in the Kingdom than just being satisfied, although you certainly need to be satisfied before you can go on to the overflow. 

Being satisfied is great, but what about tomorrow? 

If your goal is only to be satisfied, what happens when you get hungry again? 

Many Christians are in a state of being satisfied but miss the double portion. It is the double portion that brings the Sabbath rest of God. Being satisfied is only a temporary fix. It does not solve the provision problem. Knowing that you will become hungry again even while you are currently not hungry still opens the door to fear, causing you to run and labor with a survival mind-set. 

No, there is a better way to live than just aiming at being satisfied. You can’t build much with a satisfied mind-set. Your vision will still be limited at the satisfied level of focusing only on today. Just having “satisfied” as a goal is still a goal of survival in the earth curse painful toil and sweat system. 

Satisfied eats for today; the double portion builds a tomorrow!