Title Sea of Galilee/John 21:1
Contents The Great Life's Pilgrimage (25) Sea of Galilee
1. He confirms unchanging love in spite of failure.
The most burdensome thing for a failed person is cynical gaze and indifference from those around them. And the inner guilt. Perhaps that's how Park Joo-young, who scored a suicide goal in the last match against Argentina, felt. This was the situation with Peter two thousand years ago. Denying and cursing his beloved Lord three times was an impossible goal of suicide. Now he would have concluded that the Lord would no longer deal with him. But the risen Lord comes to him. And without a word of reproach, he cooks fish on the beach and recommends it to his disciples. According to John 21:12, “Come and eat breakfast”. When you enter the church built with black basalt bricks, a rock called 'Mensa of Christi or Mensa Domini' is preserved in front of the church. According to tradition, this rock is where Jesus ate with Peter and his disciples. It is known as a divided table. A memorial church was first built around this rock in the 4th century AD, and then the church was built again in the 1930s.
2. He entrusts a new mission with his unchanging love.
3. He commands us to follow the Lord again for the fulfillment of our mission.
I would like to replace the conclusive answer with Tolstoy's 'Three Questions'.
He summarizes the three most important life questions: 1) When is the most important time in the world? 2) Who is the most important person in the world? 3) What is the most important thing in the world? His answer is no different from the Lord's answer to Peter in the text. 1) The most important time in the world is <right now>. 2) The most important person in the world is <the person you are dating>. 3) The most important thing in the world is <love the person you are dating now>. In the name of the Lord, I bless you in the name of the Lord to make a summer without regrets through the practice of love, especially in the field of short-term missions or short-term service this summer. Even now, the Lord asks us questions. “My disciples, my children, do you love me?” What should be our answer?