Today in our lives when we are faced with challenges & difficulties how do we respond? Naturally when things go right we praise and thank God but in difficulties what is our response? Do we respond to God and His truth that the Lord Jesus is the only way or do we react to the events and people around? If not with our words and actions definitely in our minds.

In such situations, we may get the urge to return to our old nature than to remember the first love we experienced in the Lord. Sometimes in that dark moment of confusion it is hard to choose the right path.

This it is an opportunity to simply sit down at the feet of the Lord in surrender and obedience to enter into His presence using the four steps the Lord has offered us. The Lord will direct our way as He did for His disciples when they went back into after his death. He will prepare a meal for us and enjoy our fellowship with Him. And He will ask us what it is that we have brought into His presence to lay at His feet. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, the Lord will fill us with the right mind and understanding to deal with the situation and if necessary He will equip us as He did to the disciples.

The reading says amidst the abundance of fish the net did not tear. It is a sign that in the presence of the Lord we are invited to expect the supernatural to happen. In every death experience, as an inner response to the Lord there is hope. He is there at the shore of our lives waiting for us to share His Love because He is the stone that the builders rejected and became the cornerstone. When we say yes to Him, He becomes the cornerstone in our lives holding us firm, sharing His resurrection power with us. There is no other way to experience this life in the Spirit.

Prayer: Abba Father, bless us through the resurrection power of your beloved Son. Amen.