“If You Say So”
4 When he finished teaching, he said to Simon, "Push out into deep water and let your nets out for a catch." 5 Simon said, "Master, we've been fishing hard all night and haven't caught even a minnow. But if you say so, I'll let out the nets." 6 It was no sooner said than done—a huge haul of fish, straining the nets past capacity. Luke 5:4-6 I was reading a new devotional book recently and the passage for the day was Luke 5:1-11. This is the story about Jesus teaching from the shoreline and then he directs Simon Peter to cast off from shore and go fishing. Simon’s response is interesting. He first tells Jesus the obvious. I’ll paraphrase, “We’ve been out there fishing all night and haven’t caught a thing.” In our walk with the Lord many believers STOP here! After the Lord leads and directs us—we in turn give Him our best argument as to why we shouldn’t do what He is directing us to do. Simon had his argument ready. He knew the a