Simon answered, “Master, we have worked all night long but have caught nothing. Yet if you say so, I will let down the nets.” Luke 5:5 (NRSV)
If you say so. Peter had heard the reports that whatever this man said came to be. Peter, a fisherman knew what he was doing, he knew there was no fish in the lake, but he also knew the reports of Jesus. So his response was, “if you say so.”
I don’t think we really believe Jesus. We really don’t believe what he says is going to happen. Even though we have all the evidence that everything he vocalizes happens. Do we really trust Jesus to fulfill his promises and his commands to us? He says go be fishers of men, but yet we hesitate to fish—to share our faith with people. Do we trust Jesus that people will respond, and he will catch men?
May our response to Jesus be like Simon Peter’s, “If you say so.”
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