Matthew 14:14 says, And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.  Jesus had withdrawn from the multitudes, but they still gathered where He was.  It is too bad that people today do not have that same desire to come to Jesus.  When Jesus saw the multitudes, He had compassion on them.  We know that Jesus always has a spiritual compassion for people, but I believe that it is safe to say that He also has a compassion for their physical suffering.  Verse fifteen states, And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.  His disciples came to Jesus and told Him to send the multitude away into the villages so they could buy food.  Instead of telling Jesus what to do, they should have been asking what He wanted them to do.  We cannot come to Jesus with our concerns and attempt to tell Him how to react to them.  The disciples saw the physical situation without looking to Jesus in faith.  We may miss a miracle because we think we have the answer without looking to God for the answer to our problems.  Verse sixteen says, But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.  Jesus said let them stay and feed them.  The disciples were likely questioning Jesus' decision.  When we limit God to what we can physically see, then we, like the disciples of Jesus, are living by sight and not by faith.  Verse seventeen says, And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.  The disciples were still living by sight instead of faith.  Jesus had instructed the disciples to feed the multitude, but they only saw five loaves and two fish.  Often today, we as followers of Christ may believe that He is leading us to do something, but we look at what we have and decide it can't be done.  Verse eighteen declares, He said, Bring them hither to me.  The disciples were told to bring the five loaves and two fish to Jesus.  That should be our instruction today.  When we believe that God is instructing us to do something, instead of looking at what we don't have, we should simply bring what we do have to Him.  Verse nineteen states, And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.  The multitudes also had to follow the instructions of Jesus.  We cannot always help people, because they refuse to listen to what they need to do.  After the people were seated, Jesus looked to heaven and blessed the food, then He broke it and gave it to His disciples, and they gave it to the multitude.  We must first look to heaven if we expect miraculous things to happen.  Then, like the disciples, we must start acting by faith.  The number of loaves and fish had not increased, but the disciples began to pass the food to the people.  Verse twenty says, And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.  Not only were the people filled, but there were twelve baskets of leftovers.  We can rely on God to abundantly meet our needs, but we often aren't satisfied with that, and want Him to fulfill our wants or desires as well.  Verse twenty-one says,  And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.  This was indeed a large crowd who experienced a miracle, but I have to wonder where they were when Jesus was arrested and crucified.  It is not enough to simply follow Christ for material reasons.  We must follow in faith, to the cross and beyond.