"DO YOU NOT REMEMBER?"

Mark 8:14-21               (ESV)
"14 Now they had forgotten to bring bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat.
15 And HE cautioned them, saying, "Watch out; beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."
16 And they began discussing with one another the fact that they had no bread.
17 And JESUS, aware of this, said to them, "Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened?
18 Having EYES do you not SEE, and having EARS do you not HEAR? And "DO YOU NOT REMEMBER?"
19 When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They said to him, "Twelve."
20 "And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" And they said to him, "Seven."
21 And he said to them, "Do you not yet understand?"




Because the brain hemorrhage I experienced in 2007 was SO real and vivid to me, relating to how things were that morning is almost second nature.  It is difficult to "see" things the way they happened/were when you can't picture in your mind how certain things could possibly be that way?  Not being able to speak what you are thinking is still a memory that haunts me.  Knowing GOD can deliver from that trauma is something I will never forget!

JESUS had to remind the disciples of the times HE had provided for them previously, and how HE had done so in great measure!  HE had fed five thousand with five loaves and then fed four thousand with seven loaves, and both times the leftovers were more than they began with!  The NATURAL man cannot "see" things of the SPIRIT (1 Corinthians 2:14) for they are "folly" to him.   Seeing, and believing such miraculous occurrences, usually cannot be experienced by unbelievers as they don't "see" the things of GOD!

It is easy to get frustrated, almost put out, with unbelievers who cannot "see" the things of GOD, especially when they seem so plain to me!  JESUS has to remind me, just as HE did HIS disciples in the scripture above, of how HIS provisions are not of this world!  Just because things appear to this world to be rather bleak with no hope, JESUS has a tendency to show up and show out in situations like that!  Remembering that HE is not limited by the things of this world is the only way to live victoriously in HIM!

THIS WORLD cannot SEE the things of the Spirit, and we can't hold that against them.  However, it is imperative that we choose leaders who aren't of THIS WORLD, leaders who can see the things of the SPIRIT of GOD, and who will lead accordingly.  The trials and tribulations we have experienced should not be repeated.  JESUS asked HIS disciples "DO YOU NOT REMEMBER" in Mark 8:18.  We don't need to have HIM asking of us "DO YOU NOT REMEMBER "???