3月14日
标 题： 要经历真理
经 节： 讲完了，对西门说：“把船开到水深之处，下网打鱼。”（路加福音五章4节）
当神要教导你关于祂自己的真理时，祂会让你在生活中体验这个真理。当群众聚集的时候，耶稣登上彼得的船，由那儿讲道。彼得坐在船上，一整天听耶稣教导群众。耶稣退出讲道之后，让彼得亲身经历祂刚刚对群众的教导。群众刚刚听到真理，而彼得是体验真理。
耶稣把祂的教导变成渔夫所能理解的语言。祂叫彼得撒网到水深之处。彼得回答说：“夫子，我们整夜劳力，并没有打着什么。”彼得已经捕了一整夜的鱼，早晨的时候也洗好并补好网，又听了耶稣一整天的讲道。他很累，心里可能没有半点期盼会戏剧化地经历神的作为。然而，彼得顺服耶稣，他下了网，于是圈住一网奇迹，捕获的鱼多得让鱼网险些裂开！彼得大吃一惊，认出自己才刚经历到神的大能（路加福音五：4～11）。
彼得发现只要耶稣开口发令，他可以做任何事。因此，耶稣可以改变彼得人生目标的优先级，由捕鱼的渔夫变成得人渔夫（路加福音五：10）。彼得的顺服使他更深地认识耶稣。与耶稣更亲密、更强有力的同行，是祂的邀请。
神不要你仅在知识上了解真理，祂要你去体验祂的真理。有些关于耶稣的事，非要你顺服才能学到。你的顺服会让你看到更大的启示，及更多服事的机会。
Truth
Is to Be Experienced
When
He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and
let down your nets for a catch.” (Luke 5:4)
When Christ teaches you something about
Himself, He implements it into your life through experience. As the crowds
gathered around, Jesus chose to board Peter’s boat and teach the people from
there. All day long Peter sat in the boat listening to Jesus teach the
multitudes. At the close of His discourse, Jesus allowed Peter to experience
the reality of what He had just been teaching the crowd. The crowd had heard
the truth, but Peter was to experience it.
Jesus put His teaching into language a
fisherman could understand. He told Peter to put out his nets into the deep
water. Peter hesitated, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing.”
Peter had been fishing all night, had washed and repaired his nets in the
morning, and then listened to Jesus teach. He was tired. He probably was not
expecting a dramatic encounter with God at a time like that. Yet, as Peter
obeyed Jesus, he pulled in such a miraculous catch of fish that his boat almost
sank! Peter was filled with amazement and recognized that he had just
experienced the power of God (Luke 5:4–11).
Peter learned that with a command from
Jesus, he could do anything. Thus, Jesus was able to reorder Peter’s priorities
from catching fish to catching men (Luke 4:10). Peter’s obedience led to a
dramatic new insight into the person of Jesus. This was an invitation to walk
with Jesus in an even more intimate and powerful way.
God does not want you to merely gain
intellectual knowledge of truth. He wants you to experience His truth. There
are things about Jesus you will learn only as you obey Him. Your obedience will
then lead to greater revelation and opportunities for service.
