“It’s All The Same, Until Jesus Joins”
Eugene Peterson gives a brief but encouraging word for those of us who need some restarts in life. His comments are from The Message, page 1177 comments on Luke 5:1-11.
All of us experience failure. We fail at many things and in many ways. These failures are painful. Sometimes they leave us full of guilt, sometimes full of shame and inadequacy, at times full of guilt , determined to quit. We’ve proved sufficiently to ourselves and the people around us that we are not good at love, we’re not good at parenting, we’re not good at the whole Christian thing. We draw back, live marginally, cautiously, safely.
And then we hear Jesus say, “Go out into the deep and let down your nets “
We say, in plain truth, “But we’ve already done that, and nothing happened.”
And Jesus says, “But you didn’t do it with me in the boat; you didn’t do it with me giving the commands.”
Same boat. Same commands. Same nets. But now Jesus is in on it – and that makes all the difference.”
Life changes when you invite Jesus into your boat (life). The requirement is simple, but not easy: surrender the rudder and follow his commands. WOW! Perspective changes and a new purpose moves us forward like a wind in our sails.
Thanks for listening.
