Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Giving Jesus Our Boat

Continuing on with the book that I am reading by Max Lucado Cure for the Common Life: Living In Your Sweet Spot, I was reading this morning about how Jesus went into Peter's boat without even asking if He could use it. The crowd got so big on land that Jesus needed to move out into the water in order to go on preaching to all the people that were there.

Now when Jesus was done preaching He told Peter to cast out his boat and go fishing. Peter being a well-seasoned fisherman was tired. He had fished all night with the other men with him and they caught nothing. The nets were cleaned and put away for the day and already to go for fishing at night  when it was the best time. But Peter obeyed the Lord and when they got to a certain place and then  Peter was told by Jesus  to let down the nets. Well Peter had so many fish the nets were barley able to hold them. And he called to the others to come and help him.  Peter knew right then that Jesus was not just a carpenter, a teacher, a healer, but he saw Jesus for who He was, The Messiah. He fell on his knees before Jesus and asked Jesus to leave him alone for he was a sinner and couldn't handle Jesus' holiness.

One other story that was mentioned was about a man who labored eighteen years in a Chinese prison camp. This man had to work in where they kept the sewage. The stink and disease was so bad that the Guards and prisoners alike had to avoid the cesspools . This man spent weeks in this pit. The smell was so bad that he could not scrub it out. BUT the man was grateful for this part of the camp as it gave him time to be alone and he could sing out loud to the Lord and pray. He found his own garden in this prison of his. It became his private garden. And while there he quoted the words to the old hymn, In The Garden. He said that he never new the meaning of this hymn until he had been in the labor camp.

 Max wanted those who were reading to see God can make a garden out of the cesspool you call work, if you take him with you. I have a job that is great. But there are days that it gets pretty rough. Maybe where you work  is a bad place to be. Just remember that everything can change if you give Jesus your boat and let him call the moves.

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