Honey Hole

 

Years ago, we would sell candy as a fundraiser for our Christian school.  We bought durable things like playground equipment and overhead projectors (before the days of computers and data projectors).  When sales would lag, our pastor would declare a given Friday as “Candy Sales Day”. We would go out in the morning and sell candy (M&M’s - 50¢ a box), have a pizza lunch, and watch VCR movies in the afternoon (again, before DVD’s).  I had a car full of middle school students, and we would head straight for the car dealerships about five miles away.  I would drive around to the back and send the kids into the mechanic bays, and then go up front to the salesroom.  Often, the manager would tell me that we couldn’t sell on his lot, so I would shrug and drive around back to pick up my students, who had already sold all they could to the mechanics.  When asked how much they were, I told my kids to say, “2 for a dollar”.  Then you would sell two boxes.  But I warned the students not to tell the other students where we had gone.  We had to keep our “honey hole” a secret.  Oh no, now it’s out!  Rats!  Hey, in John 21, after the death of Jesus, Peter put his tail between his legs, gave up, and went back to fishing (his former vocation).  And Peter went to his “honey hole” on the Sea of Galilee to catch fish.  But on that particular night, he caught nothing.  God was setting Peter up for a recommissioning.  Early that morning, when Jesus called to the disciples from the shore, they didn’t know that it was Him.  Of course they didn’t!  He was dead … or so they thought.  And when Jesus said, “Cast your nets on the other side,” they couldn’t believe the brashness of whoever it was calling to them from the shore.  But when they pulled in their empty nets on one side of the boat and cast them out on the other side, they caught 153 fish!  So many that the nets began to break!  Peter’s honey hole that dried up became a great visual aid taught by Jesus Christ.  Hey, as Jesus said in Mat 4:19, “… Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”  Are you just working a job or are you fishing for men for the Savior.  Think about it.