Paul says this morning, “Let no one deceive himself,” and then tells us that “the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the eyes of God.”

That made me think about Peter in the Gospel. He had just listened to Jesus teach. He must have believed there was something special about Him. But then came the miraculous catch of fish, and Peter fell at Jesus’ knees. His eyes were opened a little more to who Jesus really was.

I believe Jesus is God. I say it every Sunday in the Creed. But if I am honest, sometimes I still struggle to have the faith that should come with really believing that. I think that is part of our broken human nature, and I know I fight against it.

We may not get a miraculous catch of fish, but God is working in the people and circumstances around us. We see prayers answered. We see things happen that we couldn’t have made happen ourselves. We just have to have the faith to see it and believe.

I often come back to the prayer, “I do believe, help my unbelief.”

Lord, let me be foolish for You and have the faith to cast my net.

I pray each of you receives the grace you need today.

I’m praying for you. Please pray for me.

I don’t normally send a second thought, but I’ve been sitting on this one a little longer this morning.

I can just picture Peter, still Simon at this point, sitting in that boat half-heartedly cleaning his nets while Jesus is teaching. He’s listening, but probably thinking,

Yeah, yeah, I hear you.

Sound familiar?

Honestly, it reminds me a lot of us that first day of ACTS. We showed up, listened to some guys talk about God, and probably weren’t completely buying all of it either.

Then Peter got a boat full of fish.

We didn’t get the fish, but I think a lot of us got our own version of it on that retreat. God showed up and made Himself a little harder to doubt.

The more I think about it, we’re probably a whole lot more like Peter than I realized.

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:18-23; Psalm 24:1-6; Luke 5:1-11