"Simon Peter said to them, 'I am going fishing.'" (John 21:3)
The KJV says, "I go a fishing." Have you ever wanted to, "....go a fishing"? This was a somewhat "confused" Follower of Jesus. He had walked with Jesus for about a three year period, heard most everything, saw most everything which Jesus said and did-------- and saw "The Empty Tomb." He was there on the mountain when Jesus said, "Go, therefore...." But now? "I go a fishing."
It is not uncommon for a Follower of Jesus to experience such, if you want to call it "uncertainty," or "bewilderment," or whatever. At times life can leave you with a seemingly no-where-to-go feeling. But then, as with the disciples in John 21, Jesus "appears" to them. So maybe it wasn't unbelief, or even discouragement which had led the Followers of Jesus to this scenario, but in the midst of this it was apparently a "wake up" call. It was as though our Lord Jesus was saying to them, "I have brought you into, 'the household of faith.' Now get on with what I have told you."
So here in John 21 the Gospel accounts end. But it is really "the Beginning." Jesus' Death and Resurrection brings the offering of Eternal Life to the rebellious descendants of Adam, from Cain, Babel, the rise of tribal nations, right to this very hour. And, because of the Shed Blood of Jesus, as the Bible says, "....in His Cross," the human race can have what the Living Triune God purposed from Eternity, the very reality in and with what our Lord Jesus Christ comforts us, "I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you."
Life will always be, "and...they caught nothing", until we realize and live what Jesus told us so long ago, and continues to speak daily to us, "With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible....Cast your net on the right side...."
Father, in Jesus' Name, I pray that I will more and more come out of the, "impossible," and into Your, "possible." Amen.
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
Hebrews 12:2
