“And He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise. And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve years. . . . He . . . commanded that something should be given her to eat” (Mark 5:41-4341And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise. 42And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment. 43And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat. (Mark 5:41‑43)).
Jesus commanded that something should be given her to eat. Now, perhaps lack of food was partly the cause of her death—because she hadn’t really been given food to eat. Perhaps the Word had been read to her in a mechanical way. But when the Lord restores her life, He brings in the thought that her life should be sustained with food.
It is lovely, too, that there was food in that house, for the Lord wouldn’t have said what He said, if there were no food available. Many times we have an abundance of food in the house, yet perhaps the children are spiritually starving. Could it be that we don’t take time to give them this divine food?