"Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!"

During my quiet time this morning, I was reading Luke 5 and came across this phrase in verse 8. This is of course after Simon Peter has witnessed Jesus filling their nets with fish after hours of previous fishing catching nothing. Simon Peter was skeptical that fish would come and after they did realized he had little faith and was ashamed to be in the presence of Jesus.

How many times do we have moments like this in our lives where we have doubt and then later realize it wasn't necessary? How many times is our faith shown to be weak? It is a challenge to trust God and to believe He can do anything, especially after routine failures and unsuccessful results. But as Jesus proved that night on the lake, He can make anything happen, it all depends on timing. Many times there is something he wants us to see in the midst of our trials and that is why we fail. . .