Scripture: Luke 5:1-11
Journal: What does it look like for you to put out into
the deep water for a catch? What is
Jesus asking you to leave behind in order to follow him to new and deeper
places?
Reflection: Jesus tests our limits and invites us to go out
into the deep, far from the secure shores of large savings accounts,
comfortable routines, familiar places and situations. There have been
many times when I felt overwhelmed by work and family responsibilities,
There have been times when I felt depressed, wanting to escape to the comfort
of home or to the security of familiar tasks. I was afraid of what lay
ahead. Every year we wonder where the money will come from to sustain our
ministry. But in every one of these situations, Jesus has been there
beckoning me, beckoning us, beyond the security of shallow water to go with him
into the deep. ~James McGinnis
Prayers
Closing Prayer: Disturb us, Lord, when we are too pleased with
ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we dreamed too little, when
we arrived safely because we sailed too close to the shore.
Disturb us, Lord, when with the abundance
of things we possess we have lost our thirst for the waters of life; having
fallen in love with life, we have ceased to dream of eternity and in our
efforts to build a new earth, we have allowed our vision of the new Heaven to
dim.
Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly, to
venture on wilder seas where storms will show Your mastery; where losing sight
of land, we shall find the stars. We ask
you to push back the horizons of our hopes; and to push back the future in
strength, courage, hope, and love. This
we ask in the name of our Captain, who is Jesus Christ. ~Sir Francis Drake
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