Luke 5:1-11
“But
Master,” Peter replies, “we’ve worked all night long―we’ve done everything we
should have done, everything we were taught to do by our fathers and their
fathers before them, and we have caught nothing....”
Why
Peter agrees to row out into the deep water we just don't know. Perhaps he did it because he was learning to
trust the Lord―perhaps he did it to show him one up―maybe it
was something in the tone of Jesus' voice.
Whatever the reason, Peter agrees to do what Jesus asked of him.....and from here, you know how the story goes…..
Nets are flung out from Peter's boat and engulf such a great catch of fish
that their nets begin to break―their boat begins to sink. It was an amazing catch. A catch made where there should have been no
catch. A catch made in deep water. A catch made at a time of day when no catch should have been made.
"Master we have worked hard all night and
haven't caught a thing," Peter retorts. Here, in the Greek, is what Peter is boldly saying: “I know my business! We
have already tried that, Jesus! We worked all night long
and nothing happened…so what's the point.
What’s
the point? The point for us today is―That sometimes the best thing any of us can
do is listen to another point of view―That sometimes we need to risk one more failure and to try one more time what we think will
not work―That sometimes we just need to
head out to the deep water and let down our nets for no other reason than the
simple fact that is what being faithful
means.
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