Now What?

Thoughts on John 21:1-14 ...

What is right, when you don't know what to do?

We are called to do what is right.  Now we are trapped in a circular argument, we are told to do but we do not know what to do!

Well, we know we are to have JOY, to be a BLESSING, to HELP, to FORGIVE, to LOVE ...

Yeah, so, what am I supposed to be doing!

Do what you know until further instructions arrive!
So, it is the end of the line for Jesus.  Captured, sentenced, executed - game over.  It was a fun three years thought the disciples as they went their own way.

Their present was over!  There was no good to be found by hanging around Jerusalem!  So they left.  And took up where they had left off three years earlier - they went back to fishing.

It was what they knew.  It was what they still had left

And one must wonder about their conversations as they walked back home, as they set out to fish again, but no luck was to be with them that night...

Do what He says, to find success where you are.
Make no mistake, they knew how to fish, it had been their living but today they were without success.

And some guy from shore hollers and asks if they are successful!  Sure just grind in the salt in the wound just a little deeper please!

But, they did do as told and cast their net on the other side and found success!

Jesus uses questions to help us find answers...

Don't miss a meal with Jesus!
Peter figures this one out real quick like and throws himself into the water and heads to shore.

Of course, Jesus has made a fire.  He just had to for Peter.  Remember, the last time we know Peter had seen Jesus was across the charcoal fire back in Jerusalem, after lying to save his own skin concerning Jesus.  Oh yeah, I think Peter is catching the mental picture here!

But, they have a meal together, a restoration of fellowship between them.

And a time for reassignment...

So, as I have painful learned across 19 months, when you do not know what to do, sit back and keep on doing what you were doing because if you wait upon Him, He will let you know what to do when the timing is right. And expect instruction from sources you would not have thought.  I find much wisdom from my niece (but don't tell her that!).