How To Take on the Deep Waters

For the longest time I've been working on my relationship with Jesus.  Today, while I was reading my bible, I came across this story.....I thought it seemed fitting.

Most of us like to live in our lives in shallow waters, where it is safe and easy. You aren’t gonna drown on shallow waters right? For the most of us, our days become a daily routine of monotonous activities. So we live our life with certain boredom and even some kind of jadedness.

Yet, there are those who live life in deep waters. They are not contented with mediocrity. They long to live life to the full. They desire to live a life that is meaningful and significant.

When Jesus first saw Peter, he was cleaning his boat on the shore. Jesus just suddenly jumped on Peter’s boat and asked him to go to deep waters. Peter obliges.

When they reached deep waters Jesus asked Peter to throw the nets.

Peter replied, “Master we have worked all night and caught nothing. But at your word I will let down the nets”

Suddenly their nets caught great numbers of fish that it was almost tearing!

Like Peter, many of us have labored and labored but “have caught nothing.” It seems like all are hard work are going nowhere.

But when we let Jesus invade our lives, He lifts up our actions, our lives, our being. We suddenly find ourselves in a higher pitch of life. We become suddenly more productive than we ever had when Jesus is in our boats.

But before we experience this lifting up of our lives and of our being, we must first do what Peter did.

He obeyed Jesus.

Peter let Jesus take him to deep waters and to a deeper way of life. It is in the deep with Jesus that Peter found something more than he expected.

So are you still living in the shallow waters?

Let Jesus in your boat and take you to the deep. And there you will find your greatness.