Off the Deep End

When Jesus calls his disciples, he isn’t simply blessing their lives with his presence. He’s calling them to a life that looks, feels, and acts radically different than the life they’ve always lived. Often that calling will result in confusion, disagreement, and frustration. In Jesus’s calling of Peter, all of these things are present, but in the midst of all of that, Peter recognizes one core truth: Jesus loves me more than, I love me. And on that singular truth, all our hopes, plans, and ultimately or lives hang.