(Luke 4:22 shares this about Jesus: “all were speaking well of Him and wondering at the gracious words which were falling from His lips.” Perhaps this is also what they were experiencing this day in Luke 5. Oh, may we be like Him in this way!)
Luke 5:1
“Now it came about that while the crowd was pressing around Him and listening to the word of God, He was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret; and He saw two boats lying at the edge of the lake; but the fisherman had gotten out of them and were washing their nets. And He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little way from the land. And He sat down and began teaching the people from the boat.”
Notice that these fishermen were done. They were washing their nets, and as we will see, they did not have a very good night of it, so they were probably ‘really done’. This causes me to wonder if these fishermen were thrilled to see Jesus coming along at this particular moment. Did they feel privileged that He climbed into their boat and asked them to carry Him off shore OR did they just smile, while harboring a little ‘But I was done’ feeling inside? Were they thrilled to be used by Him and for Him to use 'their stuff' or did they just want to go home and kick their feet up and not be used by Him this day, this time?
I’m sure they were thrilled- this was Jesus! Yet what about us; are we thrilled to be used? He is the same Jesus, and His call doesn’t always come at the most convenient moment. He often calls us when we are ‘done’. In fact, that is probably when we are most useable as we are then forced to depend upon Him and not upon ourselves.
Be used... by an all-powerful God today....even beyond your pack it up 'done' moments...."strengthened with power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience..." (Colossians 1:11)
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