The other week, Bill asked me if I would do a reading the following Sunday. At the time I was childminding – 5 weans, a dug and Willie – all seven were chasing each other around the house and I couldn’t hear a word Bill was saying.
Fast forward eight hours and Willie and I were back home again, everything had changed, the house was still in disarray, but there was this eerie silence, we thought for a minute we’d gone deaf!The reading Bill had asked me to do was Luke, Chapter 5, verses 1
to 11, where Jesus was at Lake Genneserat and chose his first disciples. He
asks Simon Peter to take him out a
little way in his boat and he preached to the people who had been crowding
around him. He then asked Simon Peter to go further out into deeper water and
lower his nets. Simon Peter explained that he and his fisherman friends were
tired (just like Willie and I), had worked hard but had caught nothing but
because Jesus had asked this of him, he would do it. The Bible tells us that so
many fish were caught that the nets were broken. When Jesus
told Simon Peter, James and John that they would become fishers of men, they left everything behind and followed him, changing their lives
forever.
Our lives are constantly changing for better or for worse but we
have faith in our Lord and Saviour just as Simon Peter, James and John did, not
knowing what will happen in the future but trusting in his love that will see
us through the good times and the difficult times.
Prayer
Susan Reid
Loving Father,
Guide us and those in Presbytery during these challenging times of
change in our Local and National Church. Make our faith like those first
disciples, trusting and glad to follow you wherever you lead us.
Amen
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