A child at a pond knows the drill: rod, reel, line in the water. Then something tugs. Knowing how to cast is not the same as being ready for the catch. In Matthew 10, Jesus takes his “Fishers of Men” and gives them further preparation for an even more important catch.
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So over the last few months we’ve been in Matthew 8 and 9, thinking about Jesus going and demonstrating who he is—miracles that point into the message and link together the healing that we need physically with the healing that we need spiritually. And then we come to Matthew chapter 10. Now we’re not going to spend too much time in Matthew chapter 10 over this coming series Gone Fishin’, but what we are going to do is use it as it actually was for the disciples: a launching point, a diving board as it were, in the mission.
Because if you think about those first chapters of Matthew, those first chapters, what are they about? They’re about getting things ready, getting the people to understand who Jesus is, particularly the disciples, and then preparing them for something. And that’s a question we all should be thinking about—what does it mean to be prepared for something, and what is it that God is preparing us for? If you’re going to really prepare well, you need to understand what you’re preparing for, not just preparing. Otherwise, you’re not genuinely ready.
We spend our whole lives preparing for different things, and when we’re kids we spend an inordinate amount of our time preparing. Because you’re not actually doing all kinds of work yet, but you’re learning things. You go to school, you learn how to spell and how to read and how to add. Then at home you learn different things you might do. Some of you might have learned how to fish as kids. And I understood the basic concepts, right? You have this rod and the reel and the fishing line, and you put it in the water, and the purpose is to catch fish. I got that much.
But what I can tell you, that I’m not going to be able to share today or any day during this series, are my tips at being an expert at fishing. Let me tell you about my fishing career as a kid. I’ve been reminiscing a lot the last few weeks after the passing of my cousin Paul. His house is right on a little pond that his dad built, and he’s taken care of all these years. It’s a beautiful little pond. He keeps it stocked. I remember as a kid we went out there one time. It was probably a holiday or something. We were going to go fishing. I had my little kid fishing pole. My dad and Paul, they both had their regular adult fishing poles.
I cast my pole and I caught something at some point. I don’t remember how long—that part’s fuzzy to me. But I remember catching something. Up to that point it’s sort of a game, right? Let’s see if we can do this. You feel the tug and you try to reel it in. There was this fish that I’d caught, and on my hook it was just all mangled, caught on this hook. I was assuming, and sometimes they would, in fact, do that there, that we were catching it to throw him back in, right? But this fish wasn’t going to come off cleanly. I remember when I found out that I had caught the fish and this fish was now going to die.
That was the end of my day fishing, and actually I haven’t fished since. That was the end of my career as a fisherman. I just was horrified at that moment because it was like, wait, this is supposed to be fun. Now we’re killing fish. It strikes me, thinking back to that, that I wasn’t really well prepared for fishing, right? Because I had some parts down, but I didn’t really know what I was doing, right? I wasn’t really ready for the thing I was actually doing. And there are plenty of kids that go fishing and they’re actually fishing to catch the fish, and they’re expecting to catch the fish, and they’re looking forward to the fish dinner, and it works. It did not work for me.
I needed to be prepared for more than just here’s how you throw out the line and so on, right? I needed to be prepared for what happens when you actually catch the fish. So it really does matter that we understand what we’re trying to do. If you’re going to catch fish successfully, I can say this much as a non-master fisherman: first, we need to understand what we’re doing. And as Jesus sends us into this world, we also, likewise, need to understand what is it that we’re doing.
So let’s go ahead and pray tonight that God helps us to understand. Father, would you help us as we come to your Word, that you would help us to hear it and to apply it to our hearts? That you would encourage us and help us to experience your grace and to share your grace. We pray in Jesus’ precious name. Amen.
Well, let’s go ahead, if you want, turn in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 10 starting at verse 5 tonight. It says, “These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them: Go nowhere among the Gentiles, enter no town of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel and proclaim as you go saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’”
Now this is situated right after all these passages we’ve been looking at—all the miracles, all the instruction, Sermon on the Mount that we looked at a couple of years ago. This whole span really is leading up to the first portion of Matthew—it’s all leading to now. Jesus is going to send the disciples. And if you recall, last week I did mention that he not only sent the twelve, but if we turn to the Gospel of Luke we see thereafter then he also sent a larger group of disciples. Jesus kept sending disciples.
But it isn’t the start of the gospel. God prepares us first. If you think about Jesus himself, he prepared himself. The God of the universe prepared himself, right? Here he is, incarnate in the flesh, fully God, fully man, and what does he do? He goes out into the wilderness and undergoes a period of temptation, to live through that, to be prepared. It’s this preparation to go into public ministry. He lives through that first, right? He’s prepared. Now he can say he’s faced the temptation that we’ve faced, only he didn’t fall to it like we fall.
So then what does Jesus do from there? Well, he goes and gathers disciples. Middle of Matthew chapter 4, after the temptations have taken place, what does Jesus do? Matthew 4:19: “And he said to them, ‘Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.’” Keep in mind, unlike me, the men that Jesus is talking to, they are experts at fishing fish. They know how to do it. They use their big nets and they’re catching for themselves and as a business, a livelihood, right? So it’s not just one fish they catch and cook up. We’re talking a lot of fish. They know how to do it. And Jesus says, “You know how to catch fish, but how about, do you know how to catch people?”
Well, that’s what Jesus is going to do, but between Matthew chapter 4 and Matthew chapter 10, even though Jesus called these disciples and said, “Okay, I’m gonna make you fishers of men,” notice that he doesn’t send them out. Why? Because even by chapter 10, they’re not really ready, but he’s gonna go let them do a little bit of fishing. But before that, they would have been like me. They would have been there casting their fishers of men nets and not knowing what to do when they actually caught a person, right? What do we do? Kind of a strange metaphor, if you think about it. Fish don’t want to be caught and it doesn’t go well for the fish when they’re caught. Is this saying that they’re going to go and bring doom upon the people they encounter, that they’re gonna throw them in the frying pan of life and destroy them?
No. That’s part of the reason why they need training, right? Because they’re gonna bring them to someplace better. But first, they need a teaching foundation. If you think of the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5 to 7, and it’s been a few years since we looked at it, so if you haven’t read it otherwise in a while, just go and read it some night. Go and just read Matthew 5 to 7. Again, because there’s so much in there, it’s so rich, we’re actually gonna look a little bit at it in Sunday school tonight. But it’s so rich and it’s so packed with how the kingdom works. Jesus is teaching the disciples, “Here’s how the kingdom works. Here’s how you should be as far as forgiveness. Here’s how you should be as far as faithfulness. Here’s how you should be as far as anger. Here’s how you should pray.”
Why does he say all these? Because if the disciples are going to go and do productive fishing for men, they need to understand what they’re fishing for. They need to understand their purpose. They’re not ready for it yet.
Jesus teaches them. Especially in the Sermon on the Mount, we get a picture of that. But if you go through all of that first part of Matthew, Jesus is preparing them. They’re following him. And part of that is just what he’s saying, right? He is telling them the truth. “Here are the things you need to know. Here’s how you live it.” But what else is he doing? He’s actually applying it to people. That’s what we’ve looked at when you look at those next few chapters. He’s performing healings, miracles, but he’s pointing people not just to “Here I can make it so you can walk again. Here I can make it so you can see again.” He’s saying, “Here I can heal your soul and make you clean. Give you hope.” And so there the disciples see, “Okay, here’s another step. I’ve read the instructions. Now I’m watching someone who actually knows what he’s doing apply it.”
If you’re going to become a really good fisherman or fisherwoman, you probably need to actually hang out with someone who is a master at it, right? You go and you find one of those expert lake guides who’s going to take you out in a boat and say, “Here’s the spot, right? Here’s where you, and here’s how you do it. Here’s the time of day you need to be out. Here’s the bait you need to use. Here’s all the things you need to do.” Right? There’s a whole thing beyond “I know how to cast a line,” right? I need a whole lot more if I’m going to go from, “Okay, I can amuse myself for the afternoon and maybe catch something,” to now “I’m actually going to be able to do it as a commercial business,” right? I can take care, I can support my family by catching fish, whole different thing.
And so Jesus has been demonstrating that over and over again. It’s not the first time the Lord’s done this over and over when God’s preparing people to go and send them. He prepares them by actually, well, preparing them. He doesn’t just say, “Here’s some things to do, go read the instruction manual and good luck,” right? He prepares.
Think about the life of Abraham. A few weeks ago, we looked at Genesis chapter 12 on steadfast. And you think about Abraham. God calls him and says, “I’m going to make you a blessing to the world.” And Abraham then waits decades to see even the first glimmer of that in the birth of Isaac. And he doesn’t really even see the fulfillment of it. There’s a lot of preparation here.
And then after waiting decades for Isaac to be born, Isaac’s born, he starts to grow up, and then what does God say? “I want you to go and sacrifice Isaac. I want you to give him to me as a sacrifice.” Now, of course, when we see that story in Genesis 22, we know that God doesn’t intend to actually have Abraham go through with it. But Abraham doesn’t know that. Abraham only knows this: he’s waited all his life to have a son. He’s a very old man at this point. He finally has this son. He’s been told that all the promises of God are going to come through his son. And now God says, “I want you to go kill him.” A sacrifice intent.
How does Abraham process it? And why does God send Abraham to go do that even though he’s going to stop him? Because we know that Abraham’s going to be stopped. He’s not going to sacrifice Isaac. And the whole rest of the story of the people of Israel is there because Abraham is told by God not to go through with it. Take a look at Genesis 22:13.
“And when Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, behold, behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called the name of that place The Lord Will Provide. And it is said to this day, on the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”
Abraham goes through surely the worst moments of his life as a preparation. And in that, Abraham has a choice. Is he going to say, “God, this doesn’t make any sense. I’m not going to do it,” or is he going to say, “God, I don’t understand, but I know that you will provide?” And ultimately that’s where Abraham lands. And so he names that place there because he recognizes, and now he’s actually seen it, “If I trust the Lord, the Lord actually is faithful.”
And critically, for a man who has had all kinds of failures, a man who at times has actually handed his wife over to foreign leaders because he’s afraid that they might kill him, the same man sees he will give absolutely everything he’s worked for for the Lord. And he knows that. And now he’s actually prepared. He’s ready.
If we’re going to be ready, the first thing that we need is to understand that God is actually faithful. God didn’t break his promise to Abraham. And he didn’t break his promise to his disciples. And he won’t break his promise to you.
So part of what we need to do is in our lives say, “God, help me to understand where is it that you put me today? And since you put me there today, how is it preparing me?” I mean, I can’t say I’m great at asking this. Or “God, would you help me figure this out? I don’t know what to do here.” Right? Help me. And that’s a good prayer too. But there’s something really good when we can say, “God, help me and help me to actually grow in this. Help me to be whom it is that you’re making me to be. To be prepared to go and do what you’re sending me to do.”
I think a lot of times as people reading God’s Word, we try to say, “Well, I’ll figure out how I can prepare.” And we put different pieces together, and we think, “I am so prepared now,” right? “I am ready for this.” But if we don’t have all the right pieces that God’s bringing together, it’s not going to work.
I saw a video a few weeks ago of a young man who decided he wanted to be Spider-Man. Here he is. He has a uniform. But see, it doesn’t work for him. And part of it, he’s in a rural village as you can see. It doesn’t work to be Spider-Man if you don’t have buildings to swing off of, right? You can’t be Spider-Man without buildings. Everyone knows you have to be in a big city because then you can swoop down and grab the bad guys and get away from the bad guys and you can do all that. But if you’re just the kid in the village, well, for one, you can’t—you don’t have, you haven’t been bit by a radioactive spider so you can’t cast your own webs, right? But on top of that, on top of that, there’s nothing to swing off.
And we may not put on a funny costume and get chased by dogs, but all of us are basically doing the same thing. We say, “I’m going to figure out how to prepare. I know what it is to be Spider-Man; it’s to put on a Spider-Man costume, right? Then I’m Spider-Man.” No, you need the buildings. You need the ability to form webs. You need those things. That’s how you’re Spider-Man, right? It doesn’t matter if you have the costume and nothing else.
And it doesn’t matter if we can speak Christian language and we know where every verse of the Bible is if we’re not actually saying, “God, prepare me and help me to actually know what to do with it. Prepare me and help me to be able to use it.”
We have all these wonderful preparations, even really good ones, but we don’t have the complete package of ingredients put together. We’re not going to be able to go fishing. It can go really, really badly.
Now, there are all different kinds of ways that we can think that we’re prepared and we’re not. Sometimes in churches, we’ll get really focused on the idea, “If we can just have the right building, now we’ll be ready for ministry,” right? Sometimes I have to say, “I think if only we had a building where the door was facing the road, now we’ll be ready for ministry.”
If only we have this, if only we have that, if only it was a little bigger, if only it was a little more comfortable, if only we can do something, right? I don’t know if I’ve been a pastor in church that had all that building or that part of the building or stop this part from falling down. “Oh, maybe it’s not the building, maybe it’s the programs. If only we had the right set of programs, just the right things that we could offer, then it would work.”
So tempting. I know what we’ve been doing wrong. “We don’t have this program. We’ll add this program and boom, it’ll all work.” But no, it’s not that either. You can have the grandest building and the greatest set of programs. It’s not going to work. We need something different as the preparation.
It’s notable that Jesus doesn’t have in Matthew chapter 9 how to build a successful programming calendar at a church. Here’s what you need to have lined up. Here’s the times. Here’s the different age group cohorts that you should have. Here’s how you do it all. He doesn’t do that. Why? Because that’s not the prep that he was providing to his disciples.
Now, I’m not saying all that’s wrong. God wants us to use our own knowledge, and I have zero doubt that the disciples all leveraged whatever it was that they had learned in their lives up to the point that it became disciples. You can certainly see that in Paul. Paul was a learned man. What does he do? He uses his learning. He knows poetry. He knows culture. He knows all this stuff, and what does he do? He uses it.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Peter, sometimes when he was ministering to people, took them out on his boat and went fishing. So they could talk. It didn’t surprise me at all.
So it’s not that we shouldn’t use these things. It’s not that it isn’t worthwhile to have a building that functions or good programs that minister to the needs of people. It’s not that it’s that. The issue is that what Jesus really wants his disciples to know, and what long before that, what Abraham was being trained up to know, and what everyone in between and everyone after that God works in really needs to know is that we all need to know God’s grace and his mercy and how his word actually speaks to that.
Because when we have that, we have the right mission. The right preparation will equal the right mission. When we’re training for the wrong thing, we’re going to miss it. We might be all ready and polished and even go and do something and it doesn’t work. And God says, “But will you just come meet me in my word? Will you know who I am?”
And would you remember that when you’re in my word, it’s not just so you can memorize it and know it—that’s a good thing—but so you can apply it, so you can share it with others, so you can give people hope. It’s aimed at something.
And so it’s notable, for example, when God calls Abraham, he says, “I’m gonna make a great people through your family. Your family is going to be my focus.” God’s been interacting with the whole world up to that point. Now I’m going to focus on you, Abraham, and your descendants. Why does he do that? So that Abraham and his family can be prepared to represent God to the world.
When Jesus has his disciples there and he says, “Come, be fishers of men. Now just hang out with me for a while. I’m just gonna teach you for a while.” Isn’t that contradictory, Jesus? No. It’s preparation.
And today when he gathers us together, it’s not because he just wants us all to be in here, right? We can all be together and be really glad to be together, which we are. It’s always such a blessing, I know, for me to be with all of you and to be a church family together.
But why does he gather us together? He gathers us together. He brings people throughout history inward in order to send them outward. He’s sending them to go do something.
And so the question we need to ask is, what are the buildings we’re supposed to swing off, right? When we’re out and we’re just running through a field aimlessly being chased by dogs, what is the actual place we’re supposed to be? What buildings are we supposed to swing off? We’re supposed to swing off buildings of blessing.
That’s something we see consistently in Scripture. We’re those who pass blessing to people. God blesses people through his people. Back to Matthew chapter 10 verse 40:
“Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. And the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward. And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”
The theme we see over and over and over again: why does God call us? He calls us and he gives us his blessing, his love. But why does he do that? So that then we can go and we can give God’s love, his blessing to others.
We’re called inward. We gather together to be prepared. So we go out during the week and we actually are those who are agents of blessing. It’s a very different kind of fishing. We’re not fishing so we can catch people and fry them. We’re catching people so we can give them a blessing. We can send them off better than they were because they know Jesus.
We’re here to send a blessing. And that brings us all the way back to that initial sending of Abraham. If you go to Genesis chapter 12 verse 1:
“Now the Lord said to Abram, ‘Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great. Why? So that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’”
God says he’s going to bless Abraham? Yes. Abraham’s going to be blessed with a relationship with the Lord, and as it turns out, Abraham is actually going to do quite well in this world too. And that’s not a promise of Scripture, it’s not just “be blessed and be rich.” But in Abraham’s case, he is successful.
But notice how little of that set of promises is on Abraham receiving a blessing and how much of it is on the rest of the world receiving a blessing through Abraham.
Abraham had a mission, and it was an initially inward mission. “Abraham, I’m going to give you a son and that son’s going to pass on that promise and there’s going to be this nation,” and of course Abraham can’t imagine the full details of it, but that this nation is going to be called out of Egypt and formed into a people that lasts. But why? So those who bless that nation will be blessed and that the whole world will be blessed.
How does that happen? Well, who comes out of that nation? Jesus. When God comes into the world, he’s born in the line of David who’s in the line of Abraham. The whole world is offered a blessing beyond compare—the very blessing of God.
So yeah, Abraham gets ahead. Abraham gets ahead both materially, yes, but more importantly spiritually. Abraham actually gets to talk to God and hear God speaking and see visions of God. I mean, that’s pretty amazing, right? Yes, Abraham gets ahead, but why? So that his family can be a blessing. So that promise can be carried on and the whole world will be blessed.
And that’s exactly what we see with Jesus. Jesus continues that same shape because what do we know? Well, the Lord is the same always and forever from the beginning to the end, and so he doesn’t change plans because they’re the best plans. And just like Abraham needed preparation, so did the prophets, so did the disciples. So there’s that preparation.
But even more clearly than Abraham could see, the disciples could see, “Wait, there’s actually a clear—now we can see how this blessing works.” They see Jesus go to the cross for our sins and triumph over death for our sins and give them the commission to go and tell the world about this. Now they actually fully know what the whole point is, right? This is what we’re supposed to do. We’re supposed to go and we’re supposed to preach the word.
And so what do they do? They go and baptize and make disciples. It doesn’t mean they got it always right in that moment. When they’re being sent out in Matthew chapter 10, they don’t fully get this yet. This is their practice run. They’re still going to need to come back and compare notes and talk to the guide again and say, “Jesus, we’ve been trying to fish, but we still don’t fully understand what we’re doing,” or “Yeah, we have it all figured out,” and Jesus needs to say, “You don’t fully understand what you’re doing.”
It’s actually Matthew chapter 20 where the disciples are arguing who’s going to get to sit on the right and left hand of Jesus—places of honor. And notably, Jesus did not come to give us the blessing of really important heavenly seating arrangements. To make us feel important, to let everyone admire how wonderful we are—that was not the point.
So important that we understand the point. And eventually, thankfully, the disciples get it because you know what? They did pass on that blessing. That’s why you and I are here today. They passed on a blessing and we received it.
And so we gather just as they had to be gathered to prepare. To prepare and to come back and to prepare again. The disciples needed time to prepare throughout their lives. We don’t get all the preparation and we’re done, and now we just go off on our own and it’s all okay. No. We come together. We study together so that God can continue to prepare us. But then we go and we act and we keep focused on what he’s actually been preparing us for.
I was reading about a nun over in Italy—Sister Anna Donnelly. Very nice musical sounding name, right? I mean, it seems like you’re going to write a movie script for her. I mean, it sounds like just picture-perfect. A nun in an Italian convent with the name Anna Donnelly.
And what was she going to do? She was gonna do a prison ministry. I mean, it just keeps getting better and better, right? And so she’d go from the convent over to the prison and minister to some of the most hardened criminals in Italy. Sounds like she’s got it right? You go and you get prepared and then you go into the world and you minister to the people in the world. You go to take the people who are in the lowest of places. The people who have done horrible things and may never see the light of day, but you show them the light of the gospel, right? Isn’t that wonderful?
Except there’s a little problem here. You see, Sister Anna didn’t actually go to preach the gospel to the prisoners. No, she was actually part of the ‘Ndrangheta,’ the largest crime syndicate in Europe. The mafia that moves millions of euros of money around Europe every year—the affiliates of which have been convicted of robbery and extortion, usury, false invoicing, arms and drug trafficking, vote buying, money laundering, loan sharking.
And what was she doing going to the prison? Keeping those inside informed of what’s going on outside and vice versa. She prepared all right, but she prepared for the wrong thing. And here she was wearing her habit, looking prepared, spending her life in a convent, seemingly being prepared for the right thing, and instead she is helping the mafia operate. And she eventually got caught in a sting operation.
She didn’t remember why she was given that prison access as a nun. It wasn’t so she could help the crime families communicate. She was given the access to communicate the gospel to the people. She was given it to serve, not to be served and be part of a group that would demand being served.
That’s the same—that’s true for us too. When that request came in for the heavenly priority seating, this is what Jesus said. He called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave.”
Jesus says all the worldly priorities we think of—if that’s what you’re thinking of as far as receiving blessing is all about getting worldly blessing—it’s not that. It’s about taking the blessing that God gives us and serving others with it.
Why do we gather as a church? It’s not so we have someplace nice to hang out on Sunday nights or throughout the week. So that God can work in us and through us to continue to show his blessing to the world. That people will encounter us and hear about Jesus and his love, and not just hear about it but experience it, right? Because we’re showing God’s love. We’re passing on the blessing that we’ve received.
You think about that nun. Here she was given access to people that probably it wasn’t necessarily easy to get access to in prison because they’re the worst of the worst, and she was given that special privilege, and she misused it for gain for herself and for those whom she worked for.
We’re given far more incredible access. We’re given access to the God of the universe, and we’re given access incredibly to the people around us that are made in God’s image—people whom our God loves. That’s every bit as amazing, even more amazing than getting to meet the legends of the syndicates. Unless you happen to know the legends of the syndicates, and well, then they’re the same, but generally speaking.
We have that. Think about this. This is what Jesus is telling his disciples here as he sends them out. This is what the Lord is telling Abraham as he sends him out: “I have a mission for this world. I want this world to know me, to know that they are loved, that I offer salvation, that the brokenness that we experience can be overcome, that there is actually hope.” And you know what God thinks when he thinks that? He thinks about you and thinks about the mission he’s sending you on. Because we’re the ones sent out.
That sending out that happened in Matthew 10—that was not the only time it happened. And neither the other example in Luke where he sends out a little larger group. No, this is the continuing pattern throughout all time that God does: He sends and he sends and he sends. It’s an all-inspiring mission, a mission for you.
You have a special place that God has placed you in this world. No one else is in that exact place. And God sent you to be an agent of blessing in this world.
So we get prepared and we not to our own benefit, not to our own amusement, but to being agents of blessing. He blesses us as he always has to pass along that blessing. Would you pray with me, please?
Father, we do thank you for your Word, for the truth that we find in it. When you apply that truth to us that we would know it, that we’d experience it. But then as we think about what’s it mean to be prepared? What does it mean to be learning how to be fishers of men, to be those who today go fishing? Lord, would you help us to keep our eye on what you’re actually preparing us for?
It’s not so that we can count up how many people we can utter some words at, but how many people are actually experiencing your blessing and coming to know you because they actually are experiencing you and not just something that we can check off our list.
Lord, would you prepare us? Would you help us first to experience your blessing ourselves? But then would you truly make us those who pass that blessing to this world that desperately needs it?
We’re all fish caught on the hooks of sin, but Lord, you send out your fishermen and fisherwomen to bring a blessing to unhook us. Allow us to swim freely in your grace. Pray this in Jesus’ precious name that you would help us to hold on to that and to live in that truth. Amen.
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