I Will Do As You Say: Part 7

Before we leave this scene in Luke, I want to share some thoughts on the visual of Jesus calling them out into the deep water. I think it is striking.  It makes me think of that place of adventure where our hearts long for us to be and where He calls us to, but many of us have often allowed fear to steal it away from us.  

There’s a depth of relationship that our Heavenly Father lovingly beckons us to have with Him, yet it is often outside of our comfort zone.  He calls us out to that deep, abundant life relationship with Him, but our flesh thinks there’s security in staying safely close to the shore (in ‘control’ and in the ‘known’). 

Let us all decide to say “YES LORD. Yes, on the ground of Your Word, because You’ve asked (NOT because I think this would be a good idea, but because You ask) I WILL…..  I want to walk in those good works that You’ve prepared for me _{Eph 2:10}, and I want to LIVE-'looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ'_{Titus 2:13}-  eyes fixed on You.  Life IS too short to live in my fears and failures-  I want to live in Your power and in Your will and in the abundant life that You have called me to.” 

“Upon Your Word, I will do as You say.”

May this be our prayer today and everyday,
‘O Lord, You (because only You can),
You make my life characterized by this declaration,

‘On the ground of Your word, I WILL……..!’  (that’s radical!)

Not just an ‘I WILL- radical life’ BUT

On the ground of your word, I WILL!  (because YOU have asked-at Your bidding).

There again, we MUST be in the Word and listening to His Voice to be able to take that stand, “on the ground of Your Word”.  I wonder if it was easier for these fishermen to obey against all common sense because of the time that they had spent hearing Him teach before He asked.  They had just had their ‘TIME in His Word’ so to speak.

      Amazing things happen to our faith as we are in His living and active Word.  Our faith in Who He truly is grows.  As you spend time in the OT and the gospels; remember that that wonder working God is YOUR God!  The One who says, “with God all things are possible!”  Our minds are transformed as we get just a glimpse of His glory.

Lord, give us a glimpse of Your glory as we spend time in Your Word today.

       So.... what have you tried and God is even now asking again, and you’re saying ‘I can’t’?  Will you write it down right now so you don’t lose it in the busyness of this day- and will you commit to pray over that thing? And say, ‘Lord if this is Your calling, I want to walk in obedience and follow you.  I am trusting Your power!