The Walk
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While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Immediately they left their nets and followed him.
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We live in a culture today where we like everyone to do the research for us. We let people tell us what to believe, we let the world tell us what is true, we allow ourselves to doubt things that we know as true because people come along and claim to know better.
What happens when faith is one of those things? When we allow blind faith to be the driving force of what we believe simply because that is what everyone tells us that we should believe then there is a disconnect and we find ourselves not as strong in our faith or even in a state of unbelief.
BLIND FAITH IS NOT BIBLICAL
I know what you all are thinking,
for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Faith does not mean that there is no evidence to support it. In fact, if we are to look at all the moments when God calls someone, there was evidence of who God said He was and was going to do.
While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Immediately they left their nets and followed him. And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them.
On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.
Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat.
And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”
And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! BUT AT YOUR WORD I will let down the nets.”
Peter realized that there was something to Jesus. His response was more of a courtesy than anything.
Most of the time our relationship with Jesus feels like a courtesy. Not fully understanding what He is asking of us and treating our relationship with Him as if we are not fully invested.
JESUS IS LOOKING FOR THE WILLING
And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking. They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink.
A miracle that was beyond what they could comprehend. Peter realized at this point that this was no ordinary man. That if He was able to do this kind of miracle, there must be more to Him than he thought. The evidence is provided. He saw with his own eyes what Jesus was able to do.
But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”
ENCOUNTERING JESUS REFLECTS OUR NEED FOR HIM
For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken, and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.”
And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and FOLLOWED HIM.
The call has been given. The evidence has been revealed.
WILL YOU FOLLOW?
