Spiritual waste

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Can there be spiritual waste?

Thinking about the multiplication of the loaves and fish, I am amazed at the waste (poop) that must have come with this miracle.

Further, if there is bodily wast from eatting, is there spiritual waste (poop)? If there is spiritual waste, is it good or bad waste?
 
Giggly_Giraffe, I think you’re spending too much time looking for humor in the zoo.
 
Giggly…shame, if that’s what you got out of the Gospel today, that’s the Spiritual waste.God bless. …
 
What on earth…??? 🤔

That’s your take-away from the Gospel?
 
On a more serious note: After Jesus spoke to the multitudes He-himself probably left the area and the people went on their way. There is probably a bit of parable within the scripture. I wouldn’t worry about which bush people went behind, only that they were got to hear The Sermon on the Mount.
 
Imagine Moses - in the wilderness - with 500,000 men - 40 years -
No wonder nothing grows out there !
 
It was already somewhat a desert-somewhat a noman’s land-dry and not really productive but good for raising sheep. If anything all that fertilizer and ammonia should have turned the desert into a lush paradise! But nooo! Didn’t happen. Very little water so all the fertilizer and ammonia dried up in the wind and blew away. Such is life. Farming the wastelands isn’t easy!
 
Why would I go there … Because I’m a mom. The mom in front of us has baby twins and one had a massive blowout after being nursed. Which happened during the gossple reading (multiplication of loaves and fish) … as a mom we are never far from a bathroom. I used to call bathrooms “My office” during potty training. I even had a conversation with God about how I hated feeding and giving drink because it meant I’d be stuck in the bathroom AGAIN. Hearing of 5,000 people being feed magical food means magical poop! Then the brain goes to spiritual food and winding if there is spiritual poop???
 
If spiritual poop comes out of our mouths is it pure and good or bad and smelly? Would spiritual waste be pure or unpure?

The Little Flower spoke if her Dad teaching her about graces bestowed upon them from filling up a thimble and filling up a mug. Which is fuller? Can more be added to the thimble or mug when it’s full? Would filling us past our full point be spiritual waste that then spills over? I
 
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If spiritual poop comes out of our mouths is it pure and good or bad and smelly? Would spiritual waste be pure or unpure?
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I guess it would depend on the spirit. You can tell what a person is made of by the words that come out of their mouth.
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The Little Flower spoke if her Dad teaching her about graces bestowed upon them from filling up a thimble and filling up a mug. Which is fuller? Can more be added to the thimble or mug when it’s full? Would filling us past our full point be spiritual waste that then spills over? I
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Oh, that kind of spiritual waste. Isn’t that what Jesus wants to give us? life to the brim spilling over abundantly? Alas can we receive it without wasting it?
 
Ok, as a mom, now I totally understand why your brain went there. During those baby/toddler years it felt like I was always surrounded by poop and little boy pee-pees.
Life revolved around poop! 😆

About the spiritual overflow…it’s supposed to overflow. God fills us up to the brim and then more, and then the overflow washes out from us to bathe the people around us.

Which is why it’s so hard to love other people when we are spiritually dry. We’re supposed to love others out of our abundance, but it’s so much harder when we haven’t been “topped off” ourselves by the Spirit first.

It’s like when people say to put on your own air mask first in am emergency, and then take care of those around you.

Now as a mom, I can say that it’s so hard to do this. Usually it’s just about dragging through the days and keeping little people alive, and the Holy Spirit can seem very far away. It’s so much harder when you’re not taking care of yourself. I was never very good at taking that time for myself, though.

So, no, spiritual abundance and grace is never a waste. Love and peace and joy should be spilling out of us all over, and at least those don’t make a mess for us to clean up!

Now if the things coming out of our mouths or our actions are “poop-like”…that’s obviously not from God and a sign that we need to go “gas up” from the fountain of life.
 
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It was late in the day, Jesus performs the miracle of the feeding of the 5 thousand, so they would not faint on the way home.
Spiritual waste…Someone saying (maybe your friend to you) that people had food in their bag and they decided to pull it out and eat. There was no miracle just the apostles trying to put a supernatural spin on something very ordinary.

When people hear the word of God and they respond with ‘There is no God’ or ‘That is nothing special’ that reveals a heart that is refusing grace. The word of God is full of Life and yet hearts are hard and refuse to hear it. Like a river flowing over a rock that on the inside of that rock it never gets wet. Would you call that a spiritual waste?

There may be people in your life that you meet that will try to diminish the gospel of Christ as something just ordinary and human. Remember always that we serve an awesome God, a God who loves us and wishes to be in our lives every day. Be the grain of wheat that produces a hundred fold and do not be the one that chokes the grain with weeds. This is our time to do something awesome for God!
 
Actually some say the twelve baskets left represent the 12 tribes of Israel
 
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