"Jesus is Holy" (Luke 5:8-10a)

 

EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/25/2026 10:01 PM

My Worship Time                                                                                      Focus:  “Jesus Is Holy”

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                                  Reference:  Luke 5:8-10a

            Message of the verses:  “8But when Simon Peter saw that, he fell down at Jesus’ feet, saying, “Go away from me Lord, for I am a sinful man!” 9For amazement had seized him and all his companions because of the catch of fish which they had taken; 10and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon.”

            Now we have been just looking at how the Lord Jesus Christ revealed Himself to be the omniscient, omnipotent God of the universe.  When Simon Peter saw the evidence of that in the miraculous catch of fish, he was overwhelmed with the realization that he was face-to-face with Holy God.  Peter fully aware that if he saw deity, deity saw him too, and realizing that the One who could see the depths of the lake could see the depths of his heart, and not only Peter’s hearts, but all hearts too.  So Peter felt exposed, and that is what everyone should feel too.  Peter immediately fell down at Jesus’ feet, actually His knees and he said to Jesus “God away from me Lord, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!”  No longer did Peter use the respectful term epistates as he used in verse five, but he used kurios, by which he means, “God.”  Now as a devout Jew, Peter knew that God alone was to be worshiped as referenced in Luke 4:8 and Deut. 6:13), yet he fell down before Jesus in the posture of a worshiper.  The Lord’s masterful teaching in the synagogue, His power as He cast out a demon, and also He healed Peter’s mother-in-law, and then above all the stunning catch of fish for which there was no human explanation, had brought Peter to the place where Jesus wanted him—to the recognition of his sinfulness.  One has to realize that he or she is a sinner before they realize their need for salvation, and Jesus is the way the truth and the life, the only One who can save a person.  Peter indeed did realize this by the catch of fish Jesus provided for them.  Whatever he may have thought about Jesus before this incident, Peter had no doubt now that He was God, and he recognized his own unworthiness to be in the Lord’s presence.  Peter’s attitude was like that of the repentant tax collector who, overwhelmed by his sinfulness, ‘was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’” (Luke 18:13).

            MacArthur writes “Peter’s response of fear and penitence is typical of those in the presence of God.  Abraham described himself as ‘dust and ashes’ (Gen. 18:27); Job humbly said, ‘I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; but now my eye sees You; therefore I retract, and I repent in dust and ashes’ (Job. 42:5-6); after encountering the angel of the Lord (the preincarnate Christ) Samson’s father ‘Manoah said to his wife, ‘We will surely die, for we have seen God’’ (Judges 13:22); when the Israelites ‘perceived the thunder and the lightning flashes and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain [Mount Sinai] smoking…they trembled and stood at a distance.  Then they said to Moses, ‘Speak to us yourself and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we will die’’ (Exodus 20:18-19); after seeing a vision of God in His heavenly temple, Isaiah cried out in terror, ‘ Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts’ (Isaiah 6:5); after he saw a vision of God, Ezekiel fell on his face (Ezekiel 1:28); when the apostle John saw the glorified Christ, he ‘fell at His feet like a dead man’ (Rev. 1:17).

            “The amazement that had seized Peter was shared by all his companions, who were equally overwhelmed by the catch of fish which they had taken.  Luke specifically names James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon.  Along with Peter, they would form the inner core group of the apostles.  Later, all three would see an even more awe-inspiring revelation of Christ’s divine glory at the transfiguration (Matt. 17: 1-6).  That incident also traumatized them, and ‘they fell face down to the ground and were terrified’ (v. 6).”

            I pray that all who are believers who read this SD will get a renewed spirit of remembrance as to when they became a born-again believer in Jesus Christ.  I remember a story that I heard a long time ago about a man who went fishing in a lake, and a young man came up to him and asked him why he was fishing in the lake because there were no fish in it.  Well the man did catch fish in that lake, and this illustrates many who have been born-again a while back but have kind of fell into not being faithful to the Lord and so they are not fishing in the lake full of fish, thinking nothing is in there.  Start fishing (in the Word of God) so that the Holy Spirit of God will bring revival in your heart.

5/25/2026 10:36 PM