The multitudes flocked behind JESUS wanting to hear HIS WORD by the lake. Also on the side there were hard working fishermen who had fished all night and they were washing their nets. One of them was Simon, and JESUS asked him to put out his boat a little so that HE could sit on it and teach as teachers would usually sit and teach. After teaching JESUS turns HIS attention to Simon, HE asks him to put out his net to fish which is a crazy thing to do because these fishes in the lake can only be caught during the night time. But Simon’s faith is amazing, he recognises JESUS as an amazing teacher and obeys him immediately not grumbling that he has just washed his nets. To his amazement he catches so many fish that he now needs another boat, and both boats are now incredibly full. Simon now realises that JESUS isn’t just an ordinary teacher, and that he is a sinful man who doesn’t deserve JESUS. But JESUS humbly invites these poor sinners to follow HIM and tells them that HE is gonna make them catch people alive. That invite changed these fishermen’s life, this miracle could have helped them understand in the future that winning souls for CHRIST doesn’t rest on them but on the TRIUNE GOD. These men would have just declined the invite and have been satisfied with the money that the made with the fish but they didn’t cuz they couldn’t be satisfied since the most amazing GOD has called them, they left everything to be satisfied only in HIM.
As a bride leaves everything to be joined with her groom who she values above all, the disciples left everything to be with their GROOM JESUS who came in search of these unworthy men.
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