Out of the Shallows

Luke 5

Studying this Scripture this morning God opened my eyes to some great truths-hope they challenge and bless you like they did me!

V3- Jesus asked Peter to use his boat to take him out a little into the water so that he could speak to the people. In that moment, Peter's "workplace" became a platform for the Word of God and was elevated from a simple fishing boat to a place where words of power were spoken. What about our workplaces? Will we let Jesus move our cubicle, work truck, classroom, home, from more that just a place to accomplish tasks and get a job done to a place where His Words transform lives and the Truth is spoken? I am saying "Yes, Lord! Get in my boat!"

v4-5- Jesus asked Peter to go out deeper and cast out the nets for a "haul", as the AMP states it. That sounds almost Southern! Peter had his excuses (I am exhausted, I already tried that), but he obeyed and wow what a "haul", just as Jesus had said. Here is the spiritual truth: the Word was spoken in the shallows, but the supernatural event happened in the deep. We have to move out of knee-level faith to see the incredible happen, we have to be in over our heads. The crowd stood on the shore, but Peter experienced the impossible by heading out to the deep. As Stephen Curtis Chapman says, "I'm diving in!" Come with me...