Pam Padgett ... teacher
John 21:2 There were together Simon Peter, and
Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of
Zebedee, and two other of his disciples. 3 Simon Peter saith unto them,
I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went
forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught
nothing. 4 But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore:
but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus. 5 Then Jesus saith unto
them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No. 6 And he said
unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall
find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the
multitude of fishes.
Although they had been fishing all night, Peter
and the others with him caught nothing. Then Jesus spoke to them and
told them what to do. When
they did as Jesus instructed, they caught a multitude of fish.
Then
Jesus told them to bring the fish they had caught, and Peter drew the net to
land. Although the net was full of great fishes, it did not break. .....
John 21:7 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved
saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was
the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and
did cast himself into the sea. 8 And the other disciples came in a
little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as it were two
hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes. 9 As soon then as they
were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid
thereon, and bread. 10 Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye
have now caught. 11 Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full
of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were
so many, yet was not the net broken.
As they obeyed the instructions given by Jesus, they found fish and brought them to shore, just as Jesus said. What Jesus told them to do worked.
I was reminded of a situation I faced several years ago. While working
as a computer programmer, we had been working on a fairly complex
project for several months. Two days before the final tests were to
start, I was told that additional, very complex functionality needed to
be included in the system before the tests could start. I worked many
hours trying to see a way to add this, but without success. There
seemed nothing to do but delay the entire project by several more
months. I dreaded giving this report the following morning, and poured
out my concerns to God.
That night I woke with very clear instructions about how to provide the
additional functionality with just a few additional lines of code. I
believe God brought this information to me. It took only about an hour
to make and test the changes, and it worked perfectly.
When we hear from God what to do and do that, even in secular things such as this, His instruction will work.