The morning messiah!
Soul Snack 44/10 ... The Beckoning Breakfast
Furiously licking around the twigs and other timbers were the creative flames of embers cooking fish. Had Jesus also carefully placed the bread close to the fire? Was Jesus not only serving fresh fish but also warm bread?
Hirsute, dark galilean arms proferred both warm fish and maybe even warm bread to seven delighted men. Their surprise and their hunger obliterating any attention to His scars. Thankful for this unexpected favour their minds now silently turn to the two previous occasions that they had encountered the risen Jesus.
"Jesus came, took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish. This was now the third time Jesus appeared to his disciples after he was raised from the dead". (Jn 21:13-14)
This breakfast was to bring an unusual time of restoration to their spirits and bodies.
Obediently the seven had answered His first call (v5), cast their nets at His instructions (v6), and even taken some of the catch to Jesus (v10). They had also accepted His invitation to breakfast (v12). Four times He had called, four times they had correctly responded. Jesus knew again He had their focus, attention and obedience at this most early hour. They knew too.
Already (3 years ago) they had received Jesus. Now they would respond to Him again, and answer ALL His early morning beckonings.
Jesus will call those who already belong to Him to a new focus, attention and obedience through breakfast with Him. This is received when I answer all His early morning beckonings.