That night, the seven disciples, led by Peter, had been toiling, trying to catch fish all night and catching nothing , not even a fingerling. Then, beside the bank, a voice of a lone figure rang out in the wee hours of the morn to them: “Children, have you any meat?” The answer was No! Then the silhouetted figure in the breaking light of the dawn, instructed them: “Throw your net to the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” When they had this done, they caught boat-sinking fish. Suddenly, they recognised the owner of the voice as one very familiar to them: Jesus Christ, recently killed and, now alive. They soon dragged up the catch to the land. Even then, a sumptuous meal of fish was already prepared for them on a low burning fire.
Hebrew 12:
24 ….(we are) come unto mount Zion, the heavenly Jerusalem… the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things…
John 3:
3 In reply Jesus declared, “I tell you the truth, no-one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
Ephasians 1:
18 By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you…
Job 3:
23 What I fear has happened to me;
What I dreaded has happened to me.
24 I have no rest, but only turmoil
Genesis 22:
15 The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time
16 and said, “I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,
Genesis 22:
1 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here am I, he replied
Genesis 21:
3 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him as God commanded him.
In previous meditations, we saw God cutting a covenant with Abraham. Abraham, taking a heifer, a goat and a ram, each, three years old, and a dove and a pigeon, cuts the animals in half and kills the fowls. Into this arranged row of two halves of animals, descends God to walk. It’s a great enacted statement of being one with with Abraham. It says, “My life is for your life. Any one that touches you has also touched me. I’m in covenant with you. If you are attacked, I’m also attacked. If I fail to come to your aid and help, then the life of the betrayer amongst the two parties will be as the end of those animals and fowls.” Covenant is supposed to be between two, but this is initiated by God, even though He is one.
Genes 20:
5 “…. I have done this with a clear conscience and clear hand.”
The above statement is part of the fragment of Abimelech’s argument before God.
Genesis 19
27 And Abraham get up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord
28 And looked towards Sodom and Gomorrah and towards all the land of the plain, and behold, and lo, the smoke if the country went up as the smoke of a furnace