A Reflection On Following Jesus

When Jesus is calling me to fully depend on Him

When Jesus calls us to follow Him, He always pushes us beyond our experience and beyond our abilities. Peter had been fishing all night with no results when Jesus’ instruction came to go out into deep water. All of Peter’s intuition told him that the exercise would be fruitless. But Jesus doesn’t call us to do the same things we’ve always done in the same ways we’ve always done them. He puts us in places where we must depend entirely on Him.

Next time you feel helpless in a situation and know you’re in over your head, remember the sovereign Lord who placed you there. He is Lord of the wind and the waves, the harvest, the loneliness, or whatever else might face us “in the deep.”

Jesus knows what it takes to bear fruit—and it always involves going beyond our own expertise, our limited vision, and our resources. He calls us to launch out further and deeper, into places where we have no choice but to depend on His instructions and His power.

[Jesus] said to Simon, “Now go out where it is deeper, and let down your nets to catch some fish.”

Luke 5:4