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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
Luke 5:1-11
This account is well-known for the miraculous draught of fishes . . . and for an even more wonderful event: the conversion of Simon. What is he doing while the divine Master teaches the crowds close by? He washes the nets after the unfruitful work of the previous night. The Lord Jesus is going to force him to listen. The Lord asks Peter to take Him out onto the lake, so that He could address the crowds of people gathered on the shore from the boat . . . and at the same time address the man beside Him. Then the Lord speaks to Simon and his companions in yet another way. He fills their net and thus reveals Himself to them as the Master of the universe, the One who has dominion over the fish of the sea according to Psalms 8:6; Psalms 8:8 and who is all powerful in a situation where man is powerless. Very afraid, and convicted of sin by the Lord’s presence, Simon falls down at His knees saying: "Depart from me . . .". But is it to depart from him that the Saviour, full of love, came to seek the sinner?
Luk is the only one to tell us of this decisive meeting between the Lord and His disciple Peter. In the book of Acts, he shows us Peter now become a fisher of men, being the means of a miraculous "draught" of about three thousand souls (Acts 2:41).
