HE KNOWS WHERE THE FISH ARE
Have you ever pondered the fact that God is a multiplier? From the first acts of creation, he made living things with the ability to recreate themselves. He put something of His creative power in us as human beings made in His image, allowing us to participate in the creative process. “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it,” he told the man and woman in Genesis 1:28.
Over and over in scripture God takes what we have, sometimes the little we have, and multiplies it: the loaves and fish, the widow’s oil that never ran out, the church that was born at Pentecost, and on and on the list could go.
In the story of Simon and Andrew in Luke 5, after teaching on Simon’s boat, Jesus tells Simon to “Push out into deep water and let your nets out for a catch.” Simon said, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” The story continues, “And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking. They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink.”
They had been fishing all night and caught nothing. But Jesus knew their need, and I can’t help but think he delighted in blessing his new followers in this way. No doubt it was the largest catch they had ever hauled in.
A Multiplier. A Giver. A Provider. It is His very nature.
He knows what you need and how to get it to you. He is still in the business of making much out of little. So the next time you doubt it, at His word, push out into the deep and let down your nets by faith. Watch Him multiply, and give, and provide.
Because He knows where the fish are.
Written by:
Michelle Dowdy