Come and have breakfast.
I just finished reading the book of John again and every time I read it, new truths unfold about the man who performed miracles and healings and showed love through personal touch. It is none other than Jesus. Some of the highlights are: Jesus turning water into wine, meeting the woman at the well, feeding the 5,000, giving the adulterous woman a second chance, raising Lazarus from the dead and Easter week. These are only a handful of His dealings while walking the earth. His Word tells us in the very last verse of John, “and there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, that I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written” (John 21:25). Stay with me as we explore some of these new truths from John 21:12. For, we are reminded that Jesus values Friendship.
Come and Have Breakfast (John 21:12)
In John 21:2, we read of seven disciples fishing in the Sea of Galilee:
- Peter, known as the coward
- Thomas, known as the doubter
- Nathanael
- James and John, the two boys who had thought they could drink the cup with Him
- Two unnamed disciples
As dawn broke after a catch-less fish, Jesus, unrecognizable to the seven, stood on the shore. As Jesus called to them asking what they had caught, their response caused Him to instruct that they throw their net to the right side of the boat. With that, they struggled to haul in their net because of the plentiful catch! The miracle led them to recognize it was their Lord calling out. With excitement Peter jumped out of the boat to meet Him with the other six in tow, pulling their load to shore. As they came to Jesus, breakfast awaited them. For Jesus had prepared them fish and bread.
Doesn’t that just say it all?
With all Jesus miraculously performed, it is evident that He still cared about relationship.
Whatever your concept of God is, however, you tend to react to Him, either in conscious or unconscious thought, hold it up to the light of what you see here, and let this picture shape your thinking of Him.
He cooked them breakfast!
His disciples came to the bayside with a skillet of fish and good bread awaiting them after a hard night’s work of fishing with no success until the break of dawn and Jesus showed up with a word spoken and a multitude of fish.
Fish and loaves, Jesus not only fed to the masses (John 6), but He fed the few as well (John 21).
Sharing a meal is a sign of friendship, one Jesus desires with us no matter our past, failure or personal shame. He wants you to look toward the shore, recognize Him and joyously run to Him.
The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the One who went down into death and conquered it, the One whose voice the wind and the waves still obey, the glorious, risen, Lord of all, wants to serve you breakfast.
He’ll feed and strengthen you, assure you, accept you, give you purpose and promise to be with you always. He is risen, to give you life.
Look shoreward.
He is awaiting your company and desires a walking relationship with you. A friendship that will last today and always.
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. Ephesians 2:10
Bread and fish upon the fire, prepared by a nail-scarred hand. He desires for you and I to come and dine with Him, meet with Him, be touched and loved by Him, so that in turn, we will reflect HIM to a watching world.
Journeying with Him,