Luke 9:16 Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude. 17 And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
The feeding of the five thousand in Christ’s day was in obedience to the command which He had given to His disciples, that they should distribute the fish and bread that He would miraculously multiply. It is worthy of note that the multiplication of the food did not take place all at once, with piles of Sardine sandwiches all over the place. It was as they obeyed that the multiplication took effect.
In another instance, God commands Gideon to go fight against an immense army of several hundred thousand soldiers, with only three hundred men, armed with pitchers and bull horns. In yet another instance God pits David against a giant with only a slingshot and a few stones. In another instance, The Lord commands Moses to speak to a rock, and fresh water will gush out.
And we can go on and on, for there was another episode where God commanded that a church choir should lead the charge in a specific battle, armed only with their hymnals. Therefore, if children were to obey their parents only when the command makes sense, they would, like so many other persons today, be disrupting that chain of command which God put in place.
Hebrews 12:9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!