Tuesday: I’m going fishing
Simon Peter said, “I’m going fishing.”
“We’ll come, too,” they all said.
So, they went out in the boat, but they caught nothing all night.
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We start today in a difficult place. A place of disillusion, and despair. Here we see a group of young men that had been called by Jesus to be fishers of men resort back to being fishers of fish. Have you ever been there? Been let down by church friends, leaders, and even felt let down by Jesus?
Worse than that, the leader of the group, one of the three that was very close to Jesus, is the one who leads them all away to fish. Have you ever wondered if this is where God wanted them to go, who He wanted them to be?
And even worse…at least 3 fishermen in the boat, and ‘they caught nothing all night’. They can’t even fish for fish.
Many of our young people today are in similar boats of disillusion and despair.
Some feel that they have been let down by church, by the way we ‘do’ our meetings, for a lack of ‘connection’ with the people who they feel should be the ones out of everyone in the world who would want to connect with them most.
Most don’t even know that there is a ‘Jesus’, have never been privileged enough to have people in a church care for them. They are having to cope with everything going wrong, and in many cases alone, they don’t even feel they have friends in the boat to share the journey.
It looks to us as if many are being led down paths where we know God is not wanting them to go. As I said at the start, a difficult place. Very little strength for today, and even less hope for tomorrow.
To do today:
Maybe take a walk around your community, or near your local school and come to your God in prayer, remember His words in 2 Chronicles 7:14 – “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
Lord, we need you to hear our prayer and intervene in our young people’s community.
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