3 September 2026: Luke 5:1-11
Key Verse: Luke 5:5
Simon answered, ‘Master, we have worked all night long but have caught nothing. Yet if you say so, I will let down the nets.’
Devotion:
I love the way Jesus would use everything around him to reach out to people, whether it was in a persons home healing them or out in a boat on a lake near the shore teaching people. He took what was at hand and used it for God's glory!
When Simon first questioned Jesus, it was out of experience and probably exhaustion too. He had been fishing to no avail, and this carpenter was telling him where to fish and when!
When they pulled in two boat loads of fish he had no problem listening to Jesus after that! Did it really need that deed to get Simon to listen properly to God?
Many a time we are too caught up in the world as we understand it that we lose sight of the world as God sees it; we limit his power by what we think instead of by what God actually knows!
Points to ponder:
Are you struggling because you can't see it?
Will you step forward and trust Christ!