My Devotional You said...
By Liz Omondi | Email: timestodayke@gmail. com | Image credit: medium.com
After Peter had worked all night and caught no fish, tired and 5 Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and dejected and having given up, Jesus asks him to let down his haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down nets into the water, to give it one more try. After describing his the nets.” 6 When they had done so, they caught such a large physical and emotional status, worn-out, to the Master, he said, number of fish that their nets began to break. Luke 5:5-6 “But because you say so, I will let down the nets.” I smiled cheekily as the children ran off excitedly to hastily work on their simple household chores while I completed my tasks with a bit of quietness while it lasted. This was going to be a short-lived relief from the buzzy fuzzy noise of mixed shouts and cries, not to mention nagging to give him, or her kiboko for doing this, that and the other.
This simple act of obedience, ‘because You say so, I will…,’ yielded such a great reward of bountiful of fish that the net began to break and help was needed from other partners, yet still, both boats became full and began to sink.
Of course Simon did not know what was going to happen next after obeying the Master. He had no idea that a miracle was in The moment I hear, “Done! Mum come check my room, it is the waiting due to a simple act of obedience. neat now,” I am forced to stop whatever I was doing to go and inspect the finished work. My idea of neat is more often not the Unlike Simon Peter, we have the privilege of reading and knowsame as that of my youngsters, yet when they actually do a good ing the numerous promises of God outlined for us throughout job, I quickly say well done coupled with high five. The drive the Scriptures. And God is faithful. He is a covenant keeping to quickly jump on to the tasks and complete them hurriedly is God. So we know that He keeps His promises. usually because of the promise of a reward. How many times do we humble ourselves before Him and When dissatisfied with the quality of work done, I will hold on obey the Scriptures, and like Peter say, “because You say so, I to the reward and ask the children to repeat the job, showing will?” What about when we have been obedient to His Word, them what needs to be corrected. This time the work may be and where there is a reward, like children, do we go back to our done with a little less enthusiasm, but more meticulously. heavenly Father and remind Him His promises to us in Scripture? Though He does not forget, it is okay to still remind Him, If you are a parent, or a person in authority, when a child begins You said… He is so gracious and compassionate, slow to anger a sentence with the words ’You said,’ many times it is a reminder and abounding in love. of an unfulfilled promise that requires action on your part. The children never forget promises. They will keep reminding you of that promise until you run out of every excuse in the book.
TT 160 | July 12th - July 18th| 2022
