The moment that undoes you
There’s a phrase that’s stayed with me for years.
Peter - fisherman, big personality, man of action - has just witnessed the most extraordinary moment of his working life. The nets are full to breaking. The boats are going under. By any measure, this is the best day he’s ever had.
And he falls to his knees and says: “Leave me, Lord. I’m such a sinful man.”
Something about being close to Jesus didn’t make Peter feel better about himself. It made him see himself more clearly. And what he saw undid him.
I think a lot of us have had at least one moment like that. A quiet, unexpected crack in our ordinary life where God felt suddenly, startlingly real - and our instinct was to pull ourselves together and move on.
What strikes me is this: Peter didn’t leave that boat broken. He left it transformed. But he had to stay in the undone place long enough for it to do its good work.
Job said it differently, from the other side of the Bible: “I had only heard about you before, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.” (Job 42:5)
Not I understand you now. Just: I have seen you. And that was enough to change everything.
Today’s devotional explores exactly this - the difference between holy awe and terror, between feeling unworthy and being rejected, and between being undone and being destroyed. There’s also a tiny, genuinely doable step for your prayer life this week.
Five minutes. I think it might be worth it.
👉 Watch the full devotional here -
With you on the journey.
Rob
Read this week’s devotionals here - https://open.substack.com/pub/battledrilldevotional/p/what-if-ordinary-is-exactly-enough?r=643q6o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true