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Simon Peter said, "I'm going fishing." 
"We'll come, too," they all said. 

So they went out in the boat, but they caught nothing all night. 

At dawn Jesus was standing on the beach, but the disciples couldn't see who he was. 

He called out, "Fellows, have you caught any fish?"

"No," they replied.

John 21:3-5 NLT
The guys had been up at least part of the day, and then fishing all night. 
All night labouring in the dark. 
Nothing to show for all the effort.
Can you relate? Sometimes life is like that, a slog, progress seems non existent, we are tired...
And then the dawn breaks and heading for the shore and some cheerful guy yells out "heya! caught anything?"
Jesus was lucky he just got "no".
Maybe it was the sun rising behind him, maybe it was because they were tired, maybe it was because they weren't expecting Jesus, but they didn't recognise him, didn't recognise his voice across the water. 
Can you relate?
We can lose sight of Jesus in the everyday. It's easy to miss his voice, he gets obscured by other things, and our focus is on our own efforts. Good things, but things that can lead us to lose sight of Jesus. 
Jesus saw them, knew where they'd been, what they were working on, so when it seems like life is like fishing all night in the dark and catching nothing, Jesus sees you. 
#ordinarylife
#seen
#known
#dearlyloved

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