Luke 5:4-6  NASB When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.” Simon answered and said, “Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing, but I will do as You say and let down the nets.” When they had done this, they enclosed a great quantity of fish, and their nets began to break;

If my mother-in-law offers advice about plants I’m going to listen, because I’m terrible with plants and she is great with them. If my uncle offers advice about buying cars I’m going to listen because he has a lot of experience. But if someone offers me advice about something I think I already know how to do? (Like when my husband tried to give me advice on how to make macaroni and cheese out of a box.) Yeah, I’m going to ignore that advice.

Simon Peter was a fisherman. So when Jesus, a carpenter, offered him advice about fishing, his inclination was to ignore it. Fortunately he followed Jesus’ advice and learned a great lesson: Jesus was much more than a carpenter! The result was that these fishermen “left everything and followed Him.” Luke 4:11  

Let’s not be too prideful to take good advice (and I’m not talking about the macaroni). The Bible is full of good advice for our lives, if we can admit that we need it!

-Kevi

 

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