"Moving Forward!"

 "Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught." (John 21:10 KJV)

  "For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light! For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true. Carefully determine what pleases the Lord. Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them. It is shameful even to talk about the things that ungodly people do in secret. But their evil intentions will be exposed when the light shines on them, for the light makes everything visible. This is why it is said, "Awake, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will give you light."" (Ephesians 5:8-14 NLT)

 If you didn't get the point of yesterday's post, it had to do with how the Lord has made the way, (all the things which we might have to go through, either good or bad,) that we might be prepared to serve Him better and easier than we might have otherwise, worked or labored to do, within our own strength. That might seem like it is really complicated and hard to figure out; but He works best in those that are the weakest and are more dependent on Him, not on themselves! 

 Case in point, this illustration above, as Jesus gives a simple command, which is based upon something that is hard to comprehend! They fished all night without catching a thing; but Christ shows up, telling them to cast their net to the other side, and they are overwhelmed with the catch; making it hard to even lift the net out of the water. 

 So, they work together as a team, as one body! Now they are called to move forward, with what they have now caught! Caught is the same word as, "apprehend," or "possess," which Paul uses in Philippians 3:12, but a little different tense; as one speaks about it being done, while the other speaks about doing it! When, whether you realize it or not, in this life, we are never done...

 "I want to know Christ and experience the might power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead! I don't mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus possessed me. No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us." (Philippians 3:10-14 NLT)