Encounter with God (2): Peter, Witness to a Miracle

by Rev. Jeremiah Cheung

Scripture: Luke 5:1-11

Verse 8 in this passage reads:
When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!”

What does it mean that “Peter saw this”? What did he see? He saw a miracle, and he saw three things from this miracle.

These three things transformed his life:

1. Through grace, he saw the grace-giving Lord — he saw the Lord behind the miracle.

2. Through the grace-giving Lord, he saw his own depravity

3. Through his own depravity, he saw a sinner’s need

And because of this transformation, Peter was used greatly by God.