The crowds pressed around Him listening to the word of God and He seeing two boats, entered into one of them and put it a little further from the land, sat down and taught.
We see the hunger that people heard for God's word and the wisdom God gave Jesus to enter a boat a take it further from the land so that people would not be tempted to jump in, and He taught them.
We see that even when we are in a tight situation, God will give us wisdom on what to do if we are sensitive to His voice.
He later told Simon to cast the nets deeper and He said that they had toiled all night and caught nothing but at His word they obeyed and caught so much that they filled two boats.
We learn that doing something in our own initiative can not have results as doing something which God had told us to do.
Have you not toiled for long trying to do many things that end up fruitless? Why not seek God to tell you what to do and you will find much fruit that no human explanation can tell, it's only God.
Simon got so convicted that and told Jesus to go away from him but Jesus told them that from onwards they would be a fishers if men.
They left everything and followed Jesus. The call of Jesus costed them.
You say that you are following Jesus, how much have it costed you to follow Him? If it has not costed you to follow Jesus, you are not following Him; don't deceive yourself.
In the cities, a leper asked Him for cleansing and he was cleansed. Jesus told him not to tell anyone. He was not seeking popularity amongst people. He lived before God's face. God seeing it was enough.
Do you have the same attitude? When you do something good, do you desire everyone in the neighborhood to know? Do you long to be known as having a good reputation? Follow Jesus. Don't seek popularity of men; don't seek to be known of them but only seek to be seen only by your Father in heaven and let that be enough.
Many sought Him to hear and be healed but He would often slip away in the wilderness to go and pray.
Prayer was so important to Jesus that He would look for little opportunities in His busy schedule for times to pray. He would skip lunch often and use that time to pray.
Do you seek for times where you slip away without others knowing where you are to go and pray? How much valuable is prayer to you? Follow Jesus and let prayer be more important to you that if you have a little time you'd often choose it to pray instead of taking lunch or leisure when you can't have both.
Let your whole life be marked out by prayer. Pray often as Jesus did.
As He was teaching, God's power to heal was present, and some men carrying a paralytic not finding a way removed the roof and placed Him before Jesus and seeing their faith said, his sins were forgiven.
This people could not let others from going to Jesus; if it costed them to break the roof, they were willing. they never cared what others thought of them; tbey were desperate and had to meet Jesus.
Have you been desperately in need that no one could hinder you from seeking Jesus, that you never cared what people would say? If they think you are mad, you never cared, you had to meet Jesus....
The Pharisees who were only finding faults asked who Jesus thought He was and answering their thoughts He said to the paralytic to pick up his bed and go home proving His sins were forgiven.
We learn that some sickness are due to sin. When you seek God about such He will point out the specific sin you need to turn from.
People were amazed and glorified God and were filled with fears. May we follow Jesus here, that we can live in such a way that what we do for God will not bring attention to us but all glory will go to God.
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