Going into the Deep

While Malachi and I snacked on a sea weed, cabbage and lima bean salad, I was reflecting on a message that a teammate gave the other day. He was meditating on Faith. Tangibly, what does it look like on a minute by minute basis?! He walked us through some stories of people who were living that very questsion. The disciples were asked to cast their nets into DEEP water and THERE they would catch a multitude of fish. But it wasn't in the shallows of the ocean, it was the depths where the sustanance would be found.

Peter often gets a denegrated because of his lack of faith. For example when he was asked to walk on water. Peter says to J "If it is you then tell me to come." And J simply stated "Come!" With that simple word, Peter took a step out of the boat and walked....even if it was just for a time. But Peter had the faith to step out of the the boat in the first place, obediently following the word "come."

The bottom line is fairly simple. We are to be obedient to the calling of 'come' or to go out to the deep ocean, the rest is up to J. Could Peter in his own faith walk on water.....of course not. Could the disciples catch tons of fish simply by going out into the deep. No, it was up to J to do the work. We are to simply live, BELIEVING that He is capable of the miracle.