Reassurance at Breakfast
Yeshua (Jesus) checks in with His friends
An Imaginative Interpretation and a Personal Story
February 15-22, 2025, revised April 11, 2025
(The image above is a photograph I took on the Galilee shore on New Year’s Eve 2019.)
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One of my favorite scenes in the Bible is Yeshua sitting on the rocky shore of the Sea of Galilee with seven of His disciples after His resurrection. My heart is always warmed when I think about that special reunion around the fire. I wrote a bit about this in the devotional Instruction at Breakfast, but here I expound on the story, since I have continued to make other Scripture connections. I hope that as you read it, you are encouraged by His steadfast love for you.

Instruction at Breakfast
A Reassurance of His Personal Love
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After Yeshua’s resurrection, on the same day, He appeared to His disciples while they were gathered in a closed room in Jerusalem. There He breathed the Holy Spirit on them (John 20:22). Thomas was not there; he had refused to believe unless he could see and touch the scars in His Master’s hands, feet and side. Eight days later, Thomas was in the room when Yeshua appeared to them again. Yeshua spoke directly to the weakest in faith, asking Thomas to touch His wounds, as if Thomas was the only person in the room. (See also Luke 24:33-53; John 20:19-29)

After that first week, some of the disciples must have travelled the long journey home to Capernaum in the new strength of the Holy Spirit. There, He appeared to them a third time on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, this time to address the personal need of Peter and to strengthen the others that were there.