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Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing."
They said to him, "We also will come with you."
So they went out and got into the boat,
but that night they caught nothing.
It this point in the Easter season the risk for us is the same as it was for the disciples. We can choose to return to business as usual, living as if nothing really happened. This is a normal human tendency. It is a filter we have to help us not be too influence by outliers too unlikely to matter. But although the resurrection is both an outlier and unlikely to the extreme it is nevertheless real and matters.
When it was already dawn, Jesus was standing on the shore;
but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus.
The way we get the resurrection through our filters and into our mind and heart is by receiving the revelation that it happened more than once.
This was now the third time Jesus was revealed to his disciples
after being raised from the dead.
The disciples themselves needed more than one revelation of the risen Christ and so do we. We need to learn that he is more than a myth, more than an idea, more than a merely spiritual presence. He is alive. His human body, the same sort of body that causes us so much pain in sickness, aging, and death, is restored to walk again on the earth and to never again to die.
Jesus said to them, "Come, have breakfast."
Because Jesus's body is risen as well as his soul there are no areas of life that are off limits to his care and intervention. He has fully sanctified what it means to be human. He has introduced a new possibility of meaning and holiness in the ordinary aspects of our lives.
Because Jesus lives he continues to work through his body. He continues to reveal himself to the world.
it was in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean
whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead;
in his name this man stands before you healed.
He is the stone rejected by you, the builders,
which has become the cornerstone.
There is no salvation through anyone else,
nor is there any other name under heaven
given to the human race by which we are to be saved.
Our normal fishing expeditions are no longer off limits to Jesus. Let us invite him fully into our lives as the Easter season continues. He wants to come. He wants to reveal to us and through us the power of his resurrection.
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