East Ridge Pres

Luke 5:4 And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” 5 And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” They had toiled all night and caught nothing. at dawn they beach their boats and begin to wash, mend and dry their nets. Jesus makes an absurd request. Put the nets back in the boat. Go back to work in the blazing sun. Not the right time for catching fish. “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” What Jesus commands does not always look good to us. It does not always make sense to us. May look painful and risky and insignificant and bound to fail, even absurd. But we must obey Jesus, because he is Lord and he has given us his word. At his word, obey. Because you know who he is. Jesus asks us to give up things we want. To keep doing things when we want to quit. To do new things that scare us. We must say: “but at your word, I