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\u201cWhen Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus\u2019 knees and said, \u2018Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!’\u201d<\/em> (Luke 5:8-9).<\/p>\n Are you playing Christianity or having an encounter daily with the living Christ? Peter was going about his work-day trying to earn a day\u2019s wage in his fishing business. Jesus showed up on the shoreline after they\u2019d had a bad day. They had caught no fish.<\/p>\n Jesus asked to use his boat by casting off the shoreline in order to teach the people. After Jesus used Peter\u2019s business for His purposes, He turned to Peter and suggested he throw his nets out again. Peter, somewhat reluctant and argumentative, said in his hallmark attitude, \u201cBeen there, done that Master \u2026 you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about.\u201d (my paraphrase). How many times do you and I do the same thing? \u201cJesus doesn\u2019t care about my work life. He only cares about the orphans and the poor,\u201d we say to ourselves.<\/p>\n When Peter\u2019s nets are filled with fisha strange awareness comes over him. \u201cWhen Simon Peter saw this, he fell at <\/em>Jesus\u2019 knees and said, \u2018Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful <\/em>man!’\u201d<\/em> Peter was overwhelmed at the personal love and power that was directed specifically at his need at the momenthis ailing business. It was more than he could handle. \u201cGod even cares about the condition of my business,\u201d Peter must have thought.<\/p>\n Whenever we move from playing Christianity to having a genuine encounter with the living Christ, we are confronted with our own humanity and sin compared to the unmerited love and power of Jesus Christ that is personally directed to us. It should bring us to our knees. It is an awesome experience to transition from religion to relationship. Life is never the same when you have a personal encounter with our Savior.<\/p>\n How about you? Do you need a personal encounter with Jesus today? Ask Him to reveal His power in your work today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Power Repentance \u201cWhen Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus\u2019 knees and said, \u2018Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!’\u201d (Luke 5:8-9). Are you playing Christianity or having an encounter daily with the living Christ? Peter was going about his work-day trying to earn a day\u2019s wage in his fishing business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[182,462,5149,181],"class_list":{"0":"post-22482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-devotionals","8":"tag-god","9":"tag-power","10":"tag-repentance","11":"tag-today"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}