Phillip-ino

There is something about "Phillip" that's just been bugging my finger tips. Phillip was a chosen disciple, which was an honor but several things about Phillip made me think that he was more than a disciple he was a thinking man, a business man, and a busy man. As I'm reading through this book of John, Phillip is starting to seem more like me, or vice versa, my life looks a lot like his. Recently I bought a planner in hopes that it would schedule my life: God, family, relationships, life, school, and work.(let me tell you that the planner isn't working my life is still in chaos) why did i come to the conclusion that Phillip was the thinker or the planner of all the disciples? In John ch. 6 Jesus and the disciples come face to face with yet another so called impossible task. they have hungry folks but no food! what is there to do? while the 12 worry, Jesus is calm and asks a question. Now he doesn't ask it to anyone else but Phillip. "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?" (why does Jesus ask questions He already knows?) looking at this unscheduled task Phillip rapidly pulls out the facts. The facts that say we CAN'T do this, the numbers don't match, the task is to big... I started thinking how many great moves of God have been stopped or delayed because our schedule does not match Gods scheduled assignments? In the book, "In a pit with a lion on a snowy day," Mark Batterson says something that could have eased some stress from Phillip. "Faith is embracing uncertainty." Living by faith doesn't always mean we are going to live by the plans we've made, the goals we've set, or the schedules we've marked. Living by faith means we are uncertain of our next step, our next meal, our next everything. But when you have Jesus on your side of this life lived by faith, uncertainty starts to get a little clearer. if you are like Phillip be ready to embrace uncertainty and write your plans with pencil, because you never know when God is going to ask you to feed 5,000 people.