Luke 9:12-17; Luke 10:40 John 11:21; John 11:32; Matthew 16:22-23; Luke 8:24; Genesis 12:11-13; 1 Kings 19:1-4

Luke 9
12 When the day began to wear away, the twelve came and said to Him, “Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding towns and country, and lodge and get provisions; for we are in a deserted place here.” 13 But He said to them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all these people.” 14 For there were about five thousand men. Then He said to His disciples, “Make them sit down in groups of fifty.” 15 And they did so, and made them all sit down. 16 Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. 17 So they all ate and were filled, and twelve baskets of the leftover fragments were taken up by them.

Luke 10
40 But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.”

John 11
21 Now Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.

32 Then, when Mary came where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”

Matthew 16
22Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. "Never, Lord!" he said. "This shall never happen to you!"
23Jesus turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men."

Luke 8
24 And they came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” Then He arose and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water. And they ceased, and there was a calm.

Genesis 12
11 And it came to pass, when he was close to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “Indeed I know that you are a woman of beautiful countenance. 12 Therefore it will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will let you live. 13 Please say you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that I[c] may live because of you.”

1 Kings 19
1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, also how he had executed all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.” 3 And when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, LORD, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”

In the story of the feeding of the 5,000, notice in Luke 9:12 where it says "the twelve came". Based on that, I picture that they came to him as a consensus. As it got later and later, they must have started getting hungrier, and then started complaining to each other, then finally called a meeting amongst themselves to discuss the problem of no food. At that point they had little confidence in Jesus's leadership. They felt it necessary to intervene, interrupt His healings, and bring to His attention a detail that He had obviously forgotten about.

This seemed to happen a lot in the Bible. Martha thought Jesus had forgotten about all the work to be done as He sat there with her sister Mary (Luke 10). Martha and Mary both thought that Jesus just couldn't quite make it in time to save their brother Lazarus (John 11). Peter corrected Jesus as He surely had it wrong when He said He was going to be crucified (Matthew 16). The disciples assumed they would die in the storm before Jesus woke up and calmed the seas (Luke 8). Abraham, after he was promised his inheritance, denied that he was married to his wife to avoid being killed by the king, who he assumed would do so to steal his wife (Genesis 12). Elijiah thought he was as good as dead when the ungodly Jezebel promised to kill him, even though he had just single handedly killed 450 false prophets (1Kings 19).

All of the above are very anxious moments that occurred because those involved made a false assumption about God. In those situations it is hard to blame them, but when we do this we also suffer great anxiety. Many of us often think that God has put us in a storm that will surely be the end of us, that he has given us responsibility that we can't possibly carry out successfully, that he is not paying attention to what is going on. We can use these examples from the bible to give us hope and shed light upon these lies we tell ourselves. When we feel all hope is lost, these stories remind us that we just might be wrong, and they also teach us that we don't always have to understand exactly what God is up to trust Him.