Does Your Ordinary Life Matter to God? What Jesus Asked Simon Peter For

Daily Hope with Pastor John S. Dickerson · Sep 4, 2026 · 4m

Have you ever wondered if God can really use your ordinary life? Not just your Sunday morning faith, but your actual job, your family, your daily routine? In Luke chapter 5, Jesus does something unexpected. He walks up to a tired fisherman named Simon Peter and asks for something completely ordinary: his boat. Peter had already worked all night and caught nothing. He was washing his nets, his shift was over, and he was ready to go home. But Jesus steps into his boat anyway and asks him to push out into the water. What starts as a small request becomes the beginning of everything for Peter…