Today´s reading:
OT: Numbers 32, Numbers 33:1-39
NT: Luke 4:31-44, Luke 5:1-11
Ps: Psalm 64
Pr: Proverbs 11:22
Today´s notable verse:
So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him.
Luke 5:11 (NIV)
Wow, talk about dropping everything in an instant and following Christ! Now, I don't think that this verse implies that Peter, James, and John simply abandoned their responsibilities to follow Christ. Perhaps they handed over operation of the fishing business to subordinates, or sold their interests. Regardless of the specific details, they left behind everything they had known previously, and pursued Christ wholeheartedly. We are called to this same level of devotion.
The One Year Bible Blog asks:
Comments from You & Question of the Day - Do you believe that Jesus still calls his followers to be fishers of people today? Are you a fisher of people? How are you fishing for people for the Lord in your life today?
Jesus' ministry was always - and will always be - about people. God's great plan was always for the reconciliation of His people with Himself. Thus, as we actively carry out the ministry of Christ, we are ministers of reconciliation:
18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
II Corinthians 5:18-21 (NIV)
Thus, we are still in the business of "catching men". Or, more correctly, we are the net, and the Spirit uses us to catch men.
