The Greatest Catch in the World

Luke 5:11, And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.

See Luke 5:1-11 for the full story.

Why this miracle? Especially if Simon and his brethren were just going to let the fish rot in the boats as they left everything behind to follow Christ? This miracle shows the superior worth of Christ to everything else in the world. The fishermen when left to themselves spent a long and lonely night on the barren waters. But Peter’s act of faith, heading to sea when a carpenter-turned-rabbi told him to, marked the end of such barrenness. (Note, Christ took the initiative to find Peter’s boat and give him directives.) It was worth messing up the nets again for Christ’s sake; the inconvenience Jesus cost them was more than bountifully repaid when they took Him at His word and obeyed without thought of how this was messing up their plans (and nets) for the day.

After making perhaps the greatest catch in their entire career as fishermen, the men knew they had found something far more precious than everything they had spent their lives working for up to that point. They left everything to follow this wonderful Man named Jesus, and they did so without remorse because in Him they had found all the treasures in the heavenly places. Who needed fish anymore when they had just discovered the greatest catch in the world?