Jesus is where you go to when discouraged

Jesus said unto them. I am the bread of life. JOHN 6:3 ASV

After the death of Jesus, Peter decided to go fishing night, he may have been making a decision to get away from everything and go back to where he first met the Lord. That’s a good move! When you get discouraged you’ll either go back to the One who can save, keep or satisfy, or you’ll go back to whatever was going on in your life before you met Jesus. But that is not a good move! Peter fished all that night and caught nothing. There’s a lesson there for us.

God said to the church of Ephesus in Revelation: “And you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for my name’s sake and have not become weary. Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lamp stand from its place—unless you repent” (Revelation 2:3-5NKJV).

The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus, is service to Him, Think about it. Has your Love for God grown cold? If so, you need to go back to where you first met Him, to seek Him again like you did, before you’d heard so much and seen so much, before the pressures of life had worn you down. You may say but I’m busy doing the work of the Lord. Busyness and barrenness go hand in hand together. It’s possible to look like a saint in the courts of Babylon, yet be a backslider in the courts of Zion. Three times Jesus asked Peter do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?”  And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know [the extent to which] that I love You” (John 21:17 NKJV).