Mark 6:39

Mark 6:39

Note:

I. The need which comes to men of simply being fed by God, of ceasing from forth-puttingness and self-assertion, and simply being receptive to the influences which come to them from Divinity.

II. Two lessons come to us out of the scene. (1) Seek your life's nourishment in your life's work. (2) Make your most restful contemplation and your most receptive listening at the feet of God, not to be mere spiritual luxuries, but to be forms and modes of action.

Phillips Brooks, Contemporary Pulpit,vol. viii., p. 122.