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The risen Christ didn’t appear in lightning and thunder to correct His wayward disciples. Instead, He built a fire. Cooked breakfast. And simply said, “Come and eat.” (..: John 21:12 :..)
After Peter’s denial, after the disciples’ confusion and failures—Jesus offered presence before instruction. Grace before correction. Food before theology. This moment at the water’s edge is a powerful picture of how Christ restores us: through love, relationship, and invitation.
Many of us expect Jesus to confront us with judgment when we’ve failed. But what if His way is often more like breakfast than a courtroom? What if “Breakfast with Jesus” means showing up to His presence—tired, unsure, even ashamed—and being fed, loved, and re-commissioned?
“Jesus meets your soul with both fire and food.”
What does this moment in John 21 reveal about the character of Jesus?
Have you ever experienced His restoration in a quiet, relational way—rather than dramatic correction?
What would it look like for you to have “breakfast with Jesus” today?
Personally, I’ve always been profoundly struck by something Jesus said that morning, something you didn’t mention in your video:
Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish which you have just caught.” John 21:10
There is more in this little request than lies on the surface (fish are always below the surface.)
I find there is a grace in Jesus requesting to include the fruit of His disciple’s labor, a subtle condescension suggesting a partnership in providing breakfast. I think it is more than just Jesus’s way of getting Peter to stop counting the fish (“ …149, 150, 151,152, 153”). Why did Peter count the fish? I want to shout: “Focus Pete! God is sitting over there by the fire, waiting for you, and you’re counting fish?”
Even so, God invites our contribution, obviously not because he requires it (He actually provided ALL the fish), but in loving providence, He includes our gift and unites it with His own provision. He receives from us what He just gave to us, and then He humbly appreciates it; He allowed us to feel like we posessed the fish for a moment, before He asks us to apply it to the current need. There is a giant metaphor in this little request, a deep teaching that reminds us that all that we think we have is originally His, all that we receive in life is actually from Him. It is God’s grace to invite our participation in His work of reconciling the world to Himself. It is He who instructs us to pray, to strive, to serve, to suffer, to work out our own salvation, because it is He who works in us, both to will and to do, for His own good pleasure. He requests we “bring our own fish”, not because he needs fish, but because he loves us, and in so doing he humbly gives us the dignity of being “causes”.
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