No matter what

Don’t go back

Even if, you don’t understand

Even when it seems like

It’s over, it’s the end

You think you can find

Reason in the familiar

You don’t even know

Resurrection

Has taken place

-Going Fishing

“Do you love me, more than these?” For Peter, it was the fish, his profession, his old life. It was what he knew, it was what felt comfortable. Jesus doesn’t call us out for us to only go back when it no longer makes sense, when it seems like everything you hoped in has been crushed, or so you thought. We don’t bail because we can no longer picture a reasonable outcome. What room does faith (the substance of things hoped for & the evidence of things unseen) have to reside there? Am I even His friend? Do I trust that He will never leave me? That when I can’t see or hear Him, I know I’m not abandoned? Where is my heart? Is my love superficial? When I have my “more than these” moment & truly decide where my loyalty lies, my outcome should be to follow. Wholeheartedly. Sacrificially. Even to death. I will feed His lambs, take care of His sheep, feed His sheep. No more fishing.

Do you love me,

Enough to

Leave the old?

To turn from

What you were called out of?

Will you go back?

Do you love me?

Feed my lamb

-the little one

the baby

Do you love me?

Take care of my sheep.

Do you love me?

Enough to wait?

When you don’t know

& not lead others

Away with you?

You are the disciples

The should

Follow Me

Love ME, more than…

-More Than These

What will make me leave Jesus? When I can’t hear His voice? When I don’t feel He’s near me? What will be my initial desire to go back to. When I’m waiting & broken & feel like everything I’d hoped in & hoped for has been lost? What old thing will I turn back to for comfort? These disciples weren’t kids. They were grown men who left their lives, their careers, to follow Jesus & now He was dead. They had put all their hope in Him. They were scared & understandably so. But they didn’t see the whole picture. They didn’t know the whole story. Most, if not all of us have some Peter in us. Out of revelation, we confess the truth of who Jesus is, out of trust we walked on water, out of doubt & the waves we started to sink, out of fear, we may deny, out of despair you may go back to the old, but out of love, out of agape, you see fully, you will never leave Him again. Jesus doesn’t call us out of it to go back to go back to it. What are your more than these?

Matthew 14:25-31

Matthew 16:13-20

Matthew 26:69-75

John 21:1-18