Soul Snack 8/38 ... Breakfast with Jesus - C
Eating without my skills
Professionals don't usually fail. That's why people hold this privileged title - 'professional'.I'm going out to fish," Simon Peter told them, and they said, "We'll go with you." So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. John 21:3
Seven men are rowing very familiar territory. Surely there was a century of fishing experience between them. They would know the gutters, they would know the winds. They would know the fish patterns and the fish schools. Yet all this combined knowledge, even with tenacious strength, had failed.
Reasonable expectation would suggest these seven professionals should have found reasonable success.
These men are soon to learn a new lifetime lesson.Jesus is about to invite them to a breakfast. He will do this for them, as they cannot do so for themselves. He will feed them.
These men had done all things correctly, but still failed in their own abilities and strength. Yet, Jesus had not been part of their work.
When I seek to feed myself (especially from my own abilities) without the food Jesus has to offer, I fail. I will stay hungry. I am unable to find the food I really need without Jesus. I may be wealthy, wise and worldly, but being a professional is empty, when all I need is food from Jesus.
Eat an early breakfast with Jesus this day, the food does not depend on you.