"Friends," Jesus called to them, "you don't have any fish, do you?"

"No," they answered. 

"Cast the net on the right side of the boat," he told them, "and you'll find some."

So they did, 

and they were unable to haul it in because of the large number of fish. 

The disciple, the one Jesus loved, said to Peter, "It is the Lord!"

John 21:5-7 CSB

If only we knew that after every dark night out on the lake, there was this guarantee of the dawn, and more blessing than we can count. 

Maybe you have a story like that, where blessing has come, where looking back you can hear his voice, see him on the shore.

Or maybe right now you're out on the lake toiling in the dark, and it all seems hopeless. 

Never ending. 

Even though the disciples experienced this material blessing in the here and now (heaps of fish) I think this is a picture of a deeper hope, when we will see Jesus face-to-face, when we will hear his voice without any of the distortions of our own or the world's, and all will be made new. 

This is the hope that we hold in the dark night on the lake, when we see the dawn breaking, and when we have an abundance. When Peter recognised Jesus, the fish simply didn't matter.

#hopeinthedark

#onedayallwillbemadenew