Yes you know the story, Simon, who was called Peter, listened to Jesus and took in a load of fish. However is the Spirit merely only teaching us to listen to Jesus’ words, or it is trying to take us to a deeper truth and revelation in the Spirit and show us our ways before God?
Quite clearly they had been fishing all night long, they were tired, they were discouraged from having toiled all night and catching nothing. You can even hear it in Peter’s response to Jesus’ command. “Master, we have toiled ALL night (were tired and ready to go home) and we have taken nothing (and you want me to do this yet again?) You can almost feel the reluctancy in Peter’s voice transcending even through text and the dispensation of time. So what does he do? Like most of us, he gives it a last, half-hearted effort, just to be able to say, “I did what you said to do”, but his heart was not in it. You can tell this for Peter let’s down the net: singular.
However Jesus told him clearly to, “let down your NETS for a draught.” Jesus told him to cast all he had at the blessing that he was about to receive. As we move further into the text, we see that since Peter only let down one net, the bible records in verse 6 that, “And when they had this done, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.” You see, had Peter truly been obedient and cast ALL that he had at the blessing that was about to be given unto him, he would not have ran the risk of losing some of the blessing because of the net breaking.
I ask you to think, what in your life has Jesus told you to cast your NETS at to receive a draught? And are you casting your NET and losing some of the blessing God has in store for you?
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