The fish with the coin in its mouth May 10, 2007
Posted by tonyrhodes in Not so earthbound.1 comment so far
There is a very interesting account in the life of Jesus, relating how he paid the two drachma temple tax. He told his disciple Peter to go to the lake and throw in a fishing line. Jesus said that the first fish he pulled out would have a four drachma coin in its mouth, enough to pay his tax, and Peter’s as well.
I wonder whether this was something Jesus saw beforehand as you might see a vision, a mental picture. Jesus always said that he did only what he saw his Father doing. I think he saw this fish in his spirit as soon as the need for the money arose. I believe his Father showed it to him, so he knew it was there in the lake, ready to be fished out.
God supplied the required money in a very unexpected way, and Jesus was so united in spirit with his Father that he saw the way his Father wanted to provide for him, and he had the faith to receive the gift. Jesus wants this to be our experience too.
As I have previously written, we need to see as God sees and think as he thinks. We will certainly have events like this happening to us if we look at situations with the eye of faith. We need eyes to see beyond what we are actually looking at, to see God’s source of supply, to find the coin in the fish’s mouth in any situation.
This will transform the way we regard the needs in our lives. Mary Audrey Raycroft, prayer counsellor and teacher at Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship, has said that God gives to us according to our faith, not according to our needs. Why not ask God to show us what he is seeing when he looks at what we need? A whole new realm of possibilities will open up; ordinary events will be an opportunity for something much more exciting, even miraculous, to happen!
Find the coin!
