“Jesus Is Omnipotent” (Luke 5:6b-7)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/25/2026 10:46 AM

My Worship Time                                                                           Focus:  “Jesus Is Omnipotent”

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                                   Reference:  Luke 5:6b-7

            Message of the verses:  “and their nets began to break; so they signaled to their partners in the other boat for them to come and help them.  And they came and filled both of the boats, so that they began to sink.”

            When I look at the title of this SD “Jesus Is Omnipotent” I want to know what that word means, and so let us look at several words that help us understand that word.  “Invincible, Almighty, Supreme, All-Powerful, Godlike,”  God is the only one who can be described with these words. 

            Jesus knew the location of the fish, and this demonstrated Jesus’ omniscience, but the staggering, unprecedented size of the catch revealed His omnipotence.  Peter and the others were shocked and amazed at the enormous number of fish, knowing that there was no possible human explanation for it.  Now, perhaps if this was the first time you have read this section from the Word of God you may have a couple of things that go through your mind.  Perhaps you would think that this could not happen, and think that the Bible is false.  Or perhaps you would be in wonder to think that this kind of thing could happen.  Now if this verse, and the truth of it has been looked at by you many times you may just not get the greatness of what the Lord Jesus Christ did hear.  Perhaps it is time to again be in awe of who the Lord Jesus Christ is and what He just did here.  Now nothing like this had ever happened before; no catch had been anywhere near this size.  They were witnessing a display of divine power as the Lord gathered together in one location the vast number of fish that were now causing their nets…to break.  This caused Peter and his crew to become desperately wondering what they could do, and so they signaled to their partners in the other boat (v. 7) for them to come and help them.  Hurrying to their partners’ assistance, the other boat then came alongside Peter’s and working frantically, the crews filled both of the boats.  But so enormous was the catch that both boats began to sink because of the staggering weight of the fish.

            John MacArthur writes:  “As they knew from the Old Testament, God not only created the world, but also controls it.  Nehemiah prayed, ‘You alone are the Lord.  You have made the heavens, the heaven of heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them.  You give life to all of them and the heavenly hosts bows down before You.  You are the Lord God’ (Nehemiah 9:6-7).  Extolling the Lord’s sovereign control over His creation the psalmist wrote,

“24 Lord, how many are Your works!
^[In wisdom You have made them all;
The earth is full of Your possessions.
²⁵ There is the sea, great and broad,
In which are swarms without number,
Animals both small and great.
²⁶ The ships move along there,
And Leviathan, which You have formed to have fun in it.

²⁷ They all wait for You
To give them their food in due season.
²⁸ You give to them, they gather it up;
You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good.
²⁹ You hide Your face, they are terrified;
You take away their breath, they perish
And return to their dust.
³⁰ You send forth Your Spirit, they are created;
And You renew the face of the ground.”

In Isaiah 50:2b, God declared, “Behold, I dry up the sea with My rebuke, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst.’  Even the pagan king Nebuchadnezzar acknowledge God’s sovereign control over all of His creation:  ‘All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, but He does according to His will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth; and no one can ward off His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’’(Dan. 4:35).

            Those shocked, amazed, and frightened fishermen knew that they were witnessing confirmation of the truth that ‘power belongs to God’ (Psalm 62:11).

Spiritual Meaning for my Life Today:  When my son was born he had a bad heart, really bad, and we knew from right after he was born that he would have to have open heart surgery.  When he was 18 months old he had that open heart surgery as the took his heart out of his chest, as he was on a device to keep him breathing and the blood flowing.  As one may expect there was much prayer that was going before, during, and after his surgery. I believe to this day that this was done through the power of God, to give those surgeons the ability to do what was needed to be done in order to give healing to my son.  As I look at this section from Luke’s gospel I don’t want to miss out on knowing the all powerfulness of God, to look over it because I have read it before.  God is all powerful and can do as He wants to do, and what He does is all in His will.  I am still so very thankful for the successful surgery my son got when he was 18 months old.  He is married, and has three children of his own, one in college, and two in high school.

My Steps of Faith for Today: It is my prayer for my wife that the Lord will do a miracle for her, and for the rest of the family, that God will give wisdom to us to do the correct thing in order to defeat that devilish disease of cancer.

5/25/2026 11:23 AM