Daily Seedings: Peter’s Revelation
Peter’s Revelation
Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
— Matthew 16:16
In the first year of Jesus’ ministry, while preaching by the Sea of Galilee and being pressed into the water by the throng, Jesus asked Peter that He might get into his ship.
After preaching from the ship to the people for a time, He asked Peter to launch out into the deep and let down his net for a draft of fish.
Peter replied, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net” (Luke 5:5).
Peter surely must have been startled. He, an old man and fisherman all his life in these very waters, was then taking fishing instructions from a young carpenter after he had fished all night and caught nothing!
Evidently, to prove to his instructor that He was wrong, Peter yielded to Jesus’ wish. But when he and his helper could not pull in the net because of the multitude of fish and had to call for help from James and John in another ship—filling both ships until they began to sink—he fell at the feet of Jesus and said, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!” (Luke 5:8).
Why was he occupied with his sinful state? Because, with the revelation of Jesus as the Son of God, there also came to him a revelation of his own condition. No one can come in vital contact with Deity and be the same again.
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“…one of the early 20th Century’s prophetic voices still speaks today…” — Jack W. Hayford
Reprinted with permission from Daily Seedings: A Devotional Classic for the Spirit-Filled Life by Ivan Q. Spencer (selected and edited by Edie Mourey), Furrow Press, 2008.
For more about Ivan Spencer, see “Following in His Steps” by Edie Mourey.
Category: Living the Faith, Spring 2020
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