Your Moment at the Well
The Lord’s insight. Why the right side and not the left?
Luke 5:5: But Simon answered and said to Him, Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing. Nevertheless, at Your Word, I will let down the net.”
John 21:5-6: “Then Jesus said to them, children, have you any food? They answered Him, no. And He said to them, cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some. So, they cast and now they were not able to draw it in because of the multitude of fish.”
The disciples needed food for their families. They needed fish to sell to make money. They had toiled all night doing what they had to do and had not caught a single fish. Then as they are washing their nets, Jesus tells them to cast the net out again on the right side of the boat. He said they would catch something this way.
They didn’t know it was Jesus asking them to do this. But they needed fish; they needed food, so they were willing to cast one more time on the request of a man they didn’t know. Maybe they thought this person was an expert fisherman. He was specifically telling them to cast their net on the right side of the boat. Maybe he knew something they didn’t know.
Maybe that’s the case and maybe not. Whatever the case, they did and they caught so many fish till they had to toil to bring them all into the boat. It was then they recognized it was Jesus who had asked them to cast their net out again but this time on the right side of the boat.
Sometimes, we toil at things that are important to us, but we do not get the results we want. Sometimes, all we need to do to see a change in things is to go to the right side of things where the change is. We work hard at our marriages, but we don’t make ourselves good spouses. We work hard at parenting, but we are not parents at heart. We want a good high paying job, but we are lazy and do the work of a lazy employee.
We have little results from the things we toil at doing because the work we do requires something greater and better than that which we want to give. We toil because we do not know how to work from the right side of things.
The disciples were cleaning their nets after a whole night toiling to catch fish but caught nothing. Many of us will go to work with a poor attitude but we will never think of cleaning up our attitude so we can get the promotion we want.
Jesus calls us to go to the right side of things and not the left side because He wants us to know that the left the side is the side that comforts us and makes us accept ourselves just as we are. He wants us to learn we must move to the side that is right for those who would receive the blessing of who we are and what we do.
Right and left are more than directions with the Lord. They are positions of our hearts and minds. When our hearts are right and when our minds are right, we will always see what we left to get to what we now have. If you want something for yourself, there will be very little left of you when you do not get what you want.
If you want something for the Lord and for others, there will be many blessings for you right in the place you are today. With the Lord at your side, you will learn to work from the right side of your heart and your thinking. When you do this, you will not toil at the things you do. And if you do toil it will be to toil at the abundance of the blessing He will cause you to have.
If you are on the left side of life. Move to the right. If you are on the left side of your marriage, move to the right. If you are on the left side of your employment, move to the right.
It is on the right side that you will find the catch the Lord has waiting for you.
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