Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of song and lyrics from Chris Tomlin, leading in worship, and singing … Here I Am To Worship … poignantly declaring our surrender and trust in God to make our lives a living worship of Jesus as our LORD!
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Highlight Verse[s]: Luke 5:5 [NLT] …
5 “Master,” Simon replied, “we worked hard all last night and didn’t catch a thing. But if you say so, I’ll let the nets down again.”
… Simon, to become “Peter” later, trusted his “Master” enough to do what he thought was foolish; and in doing so, he found out that this Rabbi was His Lord (see verse 8).
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Highlight Passage [context]: Luke 5:1-11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus calls Simon out ... to cast his nets when it made no sense to do so to the fisherman ... but Simon decided to do what the Rabbi told him to do ... and in doing so he found His "Lord" in this Man.
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Reference Passage [NLT] : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… If we can trust the Lord, without questioning Him, we will be blessed.
Reference Passage [NLT] : … Luke 9:23 [NLT] …
23 Then He [Jesus] said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be My follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross daily, and follow Me. …”
… Being Christ’s disciple requires being sold out to Him.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Poh Fang Chia, used personal observation to illustrate how we must trust our Lord even when human logic says something different. The ODB author wrote: A man named Refuge Rabindranath has been a youth worker in Sri Lanka for more than ten years. He often interacts with the youth late into the night—playing with them, listening to them, counseling and teaching them. He enjoys working with the young people, but it can be disheartening when promising students sometimes walk away from the faith. Some days he feels a bit like Simon Peter in Luke 5.
My guess is that anyone reading here can recall a time when following Jesus was really tough because our human logic or fleshly feelings just seemed to be 180 degrees in the other direction of what God seemed to be calling us to do. Perhaps you’re there now, … about where Simon was when Jesus told him to cast his nets out where the fisherman just knew it made no sense to do so.
But what Simon said, in Luke 5:5, showed a remarkable degree of trust in this Man, whom he knew as a “Rabbi,” not a fisherman; … and the One who was calling him to cast out the nets [See photo]. And by following thru with that trust, even tho it didn’t make much sense from a fisherman’s logic, Simon found out that this Man was no ordinary man, but rather the Man Simon, from thereon, would designate to be his “Lord” (see verse 8).
And this OBD entry asks us if we know Jesus as “LORD” and our “KING JESUS,” … the Christ?! And are we willing to trust Him and follow His will, even when logic - or human feelings - make it difficult to do so? Are we willing to trust Him enough to deny ourselves and take up our cross daily and follow Him.?
I pray so!!
My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … Dear Lord, … here I am to worship You as my LORD. … Amen
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