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When Jesus saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them,
for they were like sheep without a shepherd;
Jesus is begotten by God and knows God. We can see this evident in the perfect love he shows us. No one ever loved as this man loves. This is because no one was ever begotten by God in the same sense as Jesus.
In this way the love of God was revealed to us:
God sent his only-begotten Son into the world
so that we might have life through him.
We are meant to learn to love and know God and to love one another. Even though historically we often ran into our own limitations or those of circumstance, the new life we receive in Jesus allows us to transcend those limitations.
In this is love:
not that we have loved God, but that he loved us
and sent his Son as expiation for our sins.
This is why God challenges us to love, often in ways that defy our sense of what is possible.
He said to them in reply,
“Give them some food yourselves.”
We don't have enough ourselves. How can we give as we are called to give?
Then, taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven,
he said the blessing, broke the loaves, and gave them to his disciples
to set before the people;
he also divided the two fish among them all.
For us, love is offering our limited resources to Jesus for him to use as he pleases. When he is the one who takes and distributes them we find there is more than enough.
They all ate and were satisfied.
When God works through us in this way we do come to know God and to love him. We experience the very heart of the shepherd for the lost sheep.
Justice shall flower in his days,
and profound peace, till the moon be no more.
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