Just do it, even if it doesn’t make sense. Luke 5

If you are reading through Luke with us, today we are reading Luke 5. Here is what I heard using the SOAP devotional format:

Scripture: Luke: 5:5

Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.”

Observation:

What you are asking me to do doesn’t really make sense, but I am going to do it anyway because you told me to do it.

Application:

It isn’t up to me to make sense of what God asks or commands. It is up to me to simply have faith and do as told.

Oh, how often I say this to my kids! And I am just as guilty as they are. They question me, I question my Father and want to understand everything, but everything is not up to me to understand. It is just up to me to follow.

Prayer:

Lord, thank you for loving me and guiding me, even when I question and hesitate. Please guide me, Lord, in hearing you more clearly and acting rather than wondering or trying to understand. I want to be like Simon an just do what you instruct.

What about you?

How do you react when given instruction by God?

What did you hear in Luke 5?