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When we come to know Jesus Christ, and accept Him as our Lord and Savior, something amazing begins to happen in and to us. We are most certainly relieved of the sin which began in Adam, but the knowledge of good and evil remains... so what is God to do with that?
As I read Oswald Chambers this morning, I was touched by the message of offering ourselves to God, and then allowing Him full reign in changing us and perfecting our lives for His service. Chambers used the words of Paul to illustrate that we should present our old self as a drink offering and then allow Him to pour us over the altar.
Jesus got into the boat with Simon Peter and told him to pull away from the shore a short distance, then he taught the crowd that had gathered on the shore about the Word of God, but when He had finished teaching this lesson He told Simon to pull into the deep water, and there He not only taught Simon a greater lesson about faith, by miraculously filling two boats with fish, but convinced these men to follow Him. The question we need to ask ourselves this morning is this… are we standing on the shore listening to Jesus teach us about what we are already familiar with, or are we prepared to pull away into deeper water and learn a lesson of faith that will not only amaze us, but frighten us as well?