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Million - Week Two

raemx February 05, 2025 0 0

Thank you for rewarding love

 

God’s love, simultaneously huge, vast, unfathomable and sensitive, personalised, and caring — is incredibly rewarding. It doesn’t reward the way a high paying job advert might claim. There’s no annual bonus or access to an influential VIP circle. The salary is zero and no velvet ropes are going to be lifted aside. 

But here’s the thing: you’re already a VIP and all the riches in the world can’t compare to the rewards of God’s eternal love…

SEEDS TO SOW: When is God’s love surprising?

Read Psalm 138

Thank you for enduring love

What does the reading tell us about how God loves us? What especially strikes you about it?

Read Luke 5:  1-6

Thank you for unexpected love.

Jesus clocks the boat and clocks an opportunity. Love is surprising! One of the ironies of love is that steady, constant love is not static and dull but constantly full of surprises as we lean into a rewarding life of love and surprise.

Why does Jesus choose to catch Simon off guard like this?

Read Luke 5: 7-11

Thank you for enthusiastic love.

It’s the best catch of their lives and they leave it all behind…

They don’t say, “Give us five minutes to get this lot stowed away."

They don’t say, “There must be 5,000 fish here, surely that could come in handy?”

Why would the disciples just walk away from it all like that?