Ever had a moment when your reading the bible and something small that you have read a bunch of times just jumps off a page? It just happened to me. The story happens in the book of Luke, chapter 5. Here’s the overview:

Jesus is teaching and healing people and the crowd gets big. There are a couple of boats there at the shore so Jesus decides it would be easier to speak from one of the boats instead of the shore and jumps in this unsuspecting fisherman’s boat, who happens to be named Simon Peter, and pushes out a ways to create a little floating stage. When he is done teaching he tells Simon to go out a ways in the boat and put down his nets for to catch some fish.

Pause.

Here’s some context, you have a teacher from the synagogues (remember these people have some thoughts on who Jesus is but they He hasn’t really started his ministry in full force) telling a fisherman how to fish. Judging by Simon Peter’s personality found later in the New Testament I can’t imagine his first thought was “of course you know better than me! I’ve only been doing this my whole life but I’m sure you can teach me some things!”

Back to the story:

Simon’s response hit me like a ton of bricks in verse 5. “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything.”

Wait for it…

“But because you say so…”

The rest of the story is great where they push out, catch a ton of fish, have to call for back up to bring in their monstrous paycheck that almost sank two boats, but Peter’s words just jumped off the page to me!

Because you said so…

How many times to we decide not to do something because it doesn’t make sense? How many times to we question God because we expect him to place things into our rationality instead of just trusting that his thoughts and ways are higher than ours? (Isa 55:9) To often we look for rational when we should be following because of who he is. We may not know why but we obey because he says so!

Not to make it sound too much like he’s our father… oh wait, he is.