Corona has impacted our year greatly and naturally we're disappointed to be in the position that we're in. None of us has anticipated to find ourselves on a grape farm near Worcester when we were actually supposed to be in Costa Rica or something.
In these times we so often have the tendency to focus on the problem rather than God's provision. Our team is immensely blessed and I'd bet big money that we're having a better lockdown than anyone in South Africa. We have the wide open spaces of the farm, we have a means of earning money through farm labour (to help raise money for the rest of the trip) and we're being blessed with an abundance of food. We're spending almost no money on food because people in the surrounding community are just giving to us. And we've grown so accustomed to it, we are honestly not surprised when we have another restaurant-class meal, I think sub-consciously we actually expect it.
But in reading Luke 5 the other day I was struck by how Jesus showed himself to the disciples and how they just left everything to follow him. They DROPPED their nets because he FILLED it. He provided for them and this was the proof, not only that he was God, but that he could provide for them.
Therefore, can we not rejoice and be grateful for how God is providing for us still in this time? So when we're standing on our fishing boats with our empty nets will we listen when he says...
"Cast your net just one more time"
Our hope is in his provision, which is why we will so readily drop our nets when he says...
"Follow me"