Day 5
1 On one occasion, while Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret with the crowd pressing in on Him to hear the word of God, 2 He saw two boats at the edge of the lake. The fishermen had left them and were washing their nets. 3 Jesus got into the boat belonging to Simon and asked him to put out a little from shore. And sitting down, He taught the people from the boat. 4 When Jesus had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”
The crowds were pressing in to hear The Word of GOD. (Let us press in today to hear The Word of GOD – we can do that as we read our Bibles and listen.)
Do you know what JESUS will do in the following few verses? I hope you will read it for yourselves but here’s my opinion: He was about to pay rent for the use of Simon’s boat.
I see The one and only GODMAN is completely sinless, completely unselfish, and completely non-abusive. He used Simon’s boat and He rewarded (or shall we say paid) Simon for the use of same.
(There are life applications here for us — may we ponder and practice them. )
If you continue to read you will see that Simon was reluctant to let down the nets because they had worked all night and caught nothing, but because JESUS said so, they put out the nets.
Are you familiar with what happened?
Enough fish to fill both boats – Simon’s and the Sons of Zebedee’s!
Yes! JESUS paid handsomely! And that was only the beginning of what our Blessed Savior would pay for the likes of those fishermen and us!
Celebrate today, my Friends, The Savior who paid it all!
Day 5
Until next time, holy hugs, Kathie
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