The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

John 21:1-3, “After these things Jesus manifested Himself again

to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias, and He manifested Himself in this way.

2 Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee,

and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of His disciples were together.

3 Simon Peter said to them, ‘I am going fishing.’ They said to him, ‘We will also

come with you.’ They went out and got into the boat; and that night they caught

nothing.”

Did you ever come to the end of a day with the feeling that you

had wasted it? It’s an even worse feeling when you have led others

to follow you and you’ve wasted their day, too. Leadership has a lot

of responsibilities. Jesus had risen from the dead, and Simon Peter was

now the apparent leader of the disciples. Jesus had left the disciples

with a huge responsibility of sharing the Gospel with the world-at-large.

Peter just decided to go fishing –literally fishing for fish, not for souls.

When he announced his intention, the others followed suit. What we

do inevitably influences others. We may not intend it to, but it does!

Peter should have remembered the LORD’s directive, “Follow Me, and

I will make you fishers of men” (Mat. 4:19). Once we have committed

our lives to Christ Jesus, we must never return to the old ways –the ways

of the world. It spells trouble for us and leads others in the wrong way.

We love you and pray for you daily,

Nana & Dado III

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas