Each morning we have a devotional...we watch a portion of the Jesus film and then ask the questions...
-what does this passage say about God?
-what does this say about people?
-what is there here for me?
We have watched the sower and the seed plus the fishermen after a night of no fish, ( the miraculous catch ) ....both memorable scenes and stories for thought as well as lessons in life...
The scenes from the miraculous catch show the disciples coming in from a night's fishing with empty nets, discouraged, tramping through the water, downcast.....Jesus is waiting on shore and he tells them to try again even after their tiring try...they obey, throwing out their nets again....the waters churn with fish as if waiting to be caught, filling the nets to overflowing, nearly breaking them with the numbers....
The next scene show the men excited, but Jesus is smiling, delighted watching their enthusiasm over the catch....knowing full well that their lesson is a picture to come of being fishers of people instead of fish....
"the miraculous catch of fish, jesuz films, Youtube"
"the miraculous catch of fish, jesuz films, Youtube"
Yes, there will be tiring, discouraging days,...days when there seems to be nothing in the "net" of life, but there will be days with overflowing abundance of people ready to be "caught" by the Word of life, waiting to hear the Word, challenged by it, ready for a Savior ...hearts ready and open to the message of healing and salvation.....
That is what we witnessed in each of the three villages in which we have shown the Jesus film...people waiting to be "caught" by the Word of life...from small children to grandmas...churning the seas, dreaming dreams of someone holding out the Bible to them, and their humble admission of faith in the one true Savior .....smiles with tears, hugs with joy....waiting and accepting...if only the net was cast into the sea of people...and obedience of the disciples ....prayer for the fishermen and their obedience to Christ's call to through out the nets again...
That is another ", What good thing do I expect God to do?"...He filled the nets to overflowing .....the harvest was good...and only just beginning...
Thank YOU, God of all creation, the Winner of souls, the Mighty Fisherman, the powerful Word, all praise to you .....
Luke 5:1-11 One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, the people were crowding around him and listening to the word of God. He saw at the water’s edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from shore. Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat. When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.” Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.” When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break. So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink. When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!” For he and all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken, and so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon’s partners.Then Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid; from now on you will fish for people.” So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him.
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