🔑 *KEY VERSE:*
"Jesus said to them, 'come and eat breakfast. Yet none of the disciple dared ask Him, who are you? knowing that it was the Lord. Jesus then came and took the bread and gave it to them and likewise the fish". (John 21:12, 13, NKJV)
📖 *TODAY'S READING:*
John 21:1-13
📜 *ONE YEAR BIBLE STUDY PLAN*
Genesis 32-34
*COMMENTARY*
Peter and other apostles were in various occupations when Jesus called them to follow Him. For the three years of Jesus earthly ministry, there was no record of any of the apostles going back to his previous occupation. Within those three years they followed Jesus, they did not lack anything. He provided everything they needed: food, shelter, money, protection, leadership and others.
While Jesus was still in the grave, Peter was overwhelmed by the thought of what to eat and drink. He forgot in a jiffy how Jesus took care of them. Hence, he told six other apostles with him that he was going back to fishing. They joined him immediately.
This is a true picture of what many people who are called into the ministry are doing today. The concern for personal care and family welfare outweighs concern for the ministry. These people give most of their time to mundane things in the name of tent making. They forget that Apostle Paul was also involved in tent making, yet he gave all of his life in preaching the Gospel of Grace to the Gentiles. People of God, the ministry is your primary call, don't leave it to go back a fishing. God will take care of you.
The abandonment of the Master's primary assignment to the believers is not peculiar to the ministers of the gospel alone. Many members regard it as the work of the pastors. May I remind you that the Great commission is an assignment to all believers.
Peter and his colleagues caught nothing throughout the night; yet,
in the morning Jesus fed them with bread and fish that was divinely provided. Don't abandon God's assignment to you
because of the cares of this life. God will take adequate care of you.
🎚 *CONTROLLING THOUGHTS*
If Jesus has called you, don't go back a fishing else you will catch nothing.
🙏🏿 *PRAYER*
Lord, help me to always remember that you care for me.
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