Jesus made perfectly aged wine out of water, not fresh grapes (John 2:7). He raised Lazarus from the dead, not a sick bed (John 11:43). He walked on stormy water, not calm, and buoyed another while He was at it (Matthew 14:25). He healed life-long paralysis, not a sprained wrist (Mark 2:5).He filled nets with so many fish that they tore even though a few feet away and a moment earlier there had been absolutely none. He fed the 5000,not with 20 fish and 50 loaves, which would have been impressive enough, but with a little boy’s two fish and five loaves (Matthew 14:13-21). In some of these instances, He did the fantastic with nothing at all with zero help from any human. In other instances, He invited others to help those who filled the jugs with water, those He told to open Lazarus' grave, the boy who shared his lunch but notice that the help they provided was so ridiculously inadequate to the task that it’s obvious that He could just as easily have done those things without even that meager help. Nonetheless,He sometimes invited others to participate in the feats so fantastic that we’re still talking about them today; God doesn’t need our help,but He does invite it. Doing amazing things among us and in us and for us (and, yes,when necessary even to us) requires no more or less of His effort with our help or without it.But in His grand economy working through inadequate us and using the inadequate resources we might provide brings Him all the more glory and pleasure.