Lk 5:
After he had finished speaking, he said to Simon,
“Put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch.”
Simon said in reply,
“Master, we have worked hard all night and have caught nothing,
but at your command I will lower the nets.”
When they had done this, they caught a great number of fish
and their nets were tearing."
Wednesday we start the season of Lent. I don't know about you but I feel like we just got done with Advent. Sometimes I feel like Simon: exhausted! But Simon is smarter than most of us, because a lot of us might say back to Jesus, "but we are tired, and we have fasted and received reconciliation and prayed more and tried to change our lives so many times, but we still feel the same and still find ourselves giving in to the same temptations, too busy to make time for you." Not Simon, because even though he is exhausted and even though experience tells him it is useless, He knows something we don't. He knows Jesus can amaze you when you least expect it. He made the blind see, turned water into wine, cured the sick, the list goes on and on. Simon knows if Jesus says so, I better listen, even if I am a little doubtful!
I know our God who performs miracles can definitely handle repairing my heart during lent and forming it into a heart more like his. I just have to be willing to toss in my net yet again.
Father, another opportunity to grow closer to you, another chance to re-focus my heart. Thank you for creating these seasons to keep me working to be closer to you and not coasting farther away. You made me, you know what I need so much more than I do. Please help me to see what I need, and most of all let me have a closer relationship with you.
