1 Samuel 30:1-31:13; Micah 1:1-2:13; Romans 9:1-29
And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while….And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass. Mark 6:31, 39
Three times Mark 6 talks of a “desert place”. Strong’s defines it as “a desolate, uninhabited, uncultivated, wilderness region”. How then did a patch of green grass appear in such a desert place? Surely the Lord knew it was there and His planning led them to that place of colour and life. God’s provision fed them in that desert place and God’s power was displayed there. He can do the same for us. “Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give
bread also?” (Ps. 78:19-20). —Jerry Proctor
The Lord’s my Shepherd, I’ll not want; He makes me down to lie in pastures green; He leadeth me, the quiet waters by. —Francis Rous