Daily Reflections From Higher Things®

Today's Reading: Luke 5:1-11 Daily Lectionary: Judges 7:1-23; Galatians 1:1-24 We toiled all night and took nothing. (Luke 5:5) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. Fishing techniques have changed little over the centuries. Peter, James, and John worked all night long and had nothing to show for it. Anyone who has fished knows exactly what that means! Your hard work does not necessarily correspond with any sort of result. The hardest physical work I've ever done was on a fishing boat. Whether I worked hard or took a nap mattered little to the fish in the sea. They either swam into the net or didn't. My work had little to do with that. They were either there or they weren't. This is exactly how it goes in the Kingdom of God. Have you toiled all night, all day, or for your whole life, and feel like you've got nothing to show for it? Your friends and family see your work, and still don't care about Jesus? Worse yet, do you feel that perhaps you aren't as solid in your faith as you'd like to be? Are you worried about