Have you ever been at a spot that requires the knowledge and experience you've got but still your failures stood glaring?
As studied the book of Luke, I actually looked at this story again, the one were disciples had toiled all night but still had nothing.
To me who easily got weary I got to pause, Jesus didn't just give them a testimony he marked a season, a limelight for the generation that would come after.
Luke 5:5 (GNB)
“Master,” Simon answered, “we worked hard all night long and caught nothing. But if you say so, I will let down the nets.”
There are moments when we do not need to question the wisdom of the instructions God has given us.
“But God, I started this business three times and it failed.
I gave this marriage a chance—we went to therapy, we prayed—and still it failed.
I applied for the job, and they never called me.
I’ve tried to correct this child over and over again, and nothing changes.”
Like Simon, we can analyze our facts and recount our failures. But must it end with, “I am not going again”?
Can we choose instead to say, “But if You say so, I will go”?
I try to imagine the minds of these men. After working all night and catching nothing, I would not want to go again. I would grumble and complain. “I’ve searched this spot over and over. There is nothing there.”
But Jesus says, “Can you go again? Can you try again—not out of fear, but with just a little faith?”
It does not matter if you have proof of every failure you have experienced. What matters is the One who is asking you to go again.
Like Simon, today I say,
“Lord, I have walked this path. I am frustrated, flustered, and even ashamed. I am known as the best, the professional—yet here I am, facing failure. But I believe that even this is so I may know that Yahweh is God.
If You say I should throw the net again, I will throw it. Why? Because You said it.
My faith is not in my experience, not in the people I know, not in my knowledge or the skills I have gathered. It is in You. You are my confidence.
If You have spoken, I will obey.
Let my ears be open to hear You in the very places that have broken me. Jesus is saying, ‘Go again.’ And this time, I am going with You. My work is my bond."
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