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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
John 21:1-14
Only seven disciples are at the meeting place in Galilee which the Lord Jesus arranged with them (Matthew 26:32; Matthew 28:7). Moreover they seem to have forgotten why they are waiting. Simon Peter, whom the Lord had made a fisher of men, returns to his old occupation. It is hardly surprising that "that night they caught nothing." How could work, carried out according to their own will and without the Lord’s presence, be fruitful? He had warned them that they would be able to do nothing without Him (John 15:5). But as soon as He is with them everything changes. The right side of the boat has only one advantage over the left side, but an essential one: it is the side that the Lord Jesus told them to try.
And this meeting with the Master is all prepared in advance for His weary servants. He did not need their fish (v. 9); however He does not in any way despise the fruit of their labour (v. 10) and had counted it exactly (v. 11).
Dear friends, how many times do we, like these disciples, forget our next and great meeting with Him? How often also, in the midst of our circumstances, whether in defeat or success, should we be able to discern more quickly the One who is speaking to us and recognize: "It is the Lord" (v. 7).
