Awaken to God’s Love
Lord, You are my God, my savior, my all. Deserving nothing and having nothing but myself to offer, I humbly come before you asking only to be awakened to your loving kindness this day. (The entire prayer.)
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Awaken to God’s love with this commitment to action:
Do What I Am Entrusted To Do
Today I will, with faithfulness and diligence and for the sheer pleasure of pleasing Him, perform the tasks my Master has entrusted to me, tasks that are critical to His kingdom:
Carry this thought with you thoughout your day
What If The Net Broke?
How big must the miracle be in order to believe?
After the resurrection, Jesus again appeared to his disciples. They had been fishing all night but had caught nothing. “Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus. He called out to them, ‘Friends, haven’t you any fish?’ ‘No,’ they answered. He said, ‘Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.’ When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish.” 21: 4-6
The Bible calls this the Miraculous Catch of Fish (NIV).
Jesus had appeared to His disciples twice before, so the miracle of His resurrection was already witnessed. Yet, here they were and still they did not recognize Him until the catch of an abundance of fish.
Do we need miracles to recognize Christ? What if the net broke from the sheer quantity of fish and the fish could not be hauled in? Would it be less than a miracle? Would the disciples have failed to recognize Christ? How big must the miracle be in order to believe, to have faith? Might we grasp God’s love with only glimpses of what He does?
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