Today’s Podcast
- Thanks for joining me today for “A Little Walk with God.” I’m your host Richard Agee.
- If you’re going to be around sailing men, you need to know a few nautical terms like bow and stern, port and starboard, and a few others just to get around. One today struck me for the first time in some of Jesus’ final words to His disciples.
- Scripture
- John 21:5-6
- Jesus: My sons, you haven’t caught any fish, have you?
Disciples: No.
Jesus: Throw your net on the starboard side of the boat, and your net will find the fish.
- Devotional
- I’m not much of a naval guy. But having been on a few ships during my some of deployments,
- Meetings on a the USNS Comfort and Mercy
- Meetings on Flagships
- I needed to know a few nautical terms so as not to embarrass myself in front of my Navy brothers and sisters.
- Needed to know the difference between port and starboard, bow and stern. Important terms like galley, mess, and head.
- Both brothers served in the Navy
- Also wanted to be able to converse with them
- One a submariner for twenty years
- One an engineer for six years
- All our languages are a little difference, but many commonalities
- Never thought about what Jesus said until I read it again in The Voice
- “Throw your net on the starboard side of the boat…”
- The right side of the boat
- Not the wrong side
- How many times do we beat our heads against the wall because we are hard at work doing the wrong thing?
- I’ve been guilty of working hard on the wrong thing
- Sometimes physical labor
- Digging the wrong hole in the ground
- Cutting the wrong board
- Building the wrong wall
- Tearing down the wrong structure
- Sometimes mental
- Taking the wrong classes
- Reading the wrong books
- Watching the wrong programs
- Listening to the wrong teachers
- Sometimes spiritual
- Following the wrong guide
- Listening to the wrong voice
- Sometimes physical labor
- How do we know what the right is?
- Get into God’s word
- Listen for His voice
- Know His voice better than any other
- Do what He says when He says it
- Do the right thing!
- I’m not much of a naval guy. But having been on a few ships during my some of deployments,
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