{"id":5026,"date":"2014-02-11T00:05:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T08:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=5026"},"modified":"2014-02-10T23:07:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T07:07:34","slug":"getting-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2014\/02\/11\/getting-paid\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Paid"},"content":{"rendered":"

One day as Jesus was preaching on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, great crowds pressed in on him to listen to the word of God. He noticed two empty boats at the water\u2019s edge, for the fishermen had left them and were washing their nets. Stepping into one of the boats, Jesus asked Simon, its owner, to push it out into the water. So he sat in the boat and taught the crowds from there.<\/p>\n

\tWhen he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, \u201cNow go out where it is deeper, and let down your nets to catch some fish.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cMaster,\u201d Simon replied, \u201cwe worked hard all last night and didn\u2019t catch a thing. But if you say so, I\u2019ll let the nets down again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tAnd this time their nets were so full of fish they began to tear! A shout for help brought their partners in the other boat, and soon both boats were filled with fish and on the verge of sinking.<\/p>\n

\tWhen Simon Peter realized what had happened, he fell to his knees before Jesus and said, \u201cOh, Lord, please leave me\u2014I\u2019m too much of a sinner to be around you.\u201d For he was awestruck by the number of fish they had caught, as were the others with him. His partners, James and John, the sons of Zebedee, were also amazed.<\/p>\n

\tJesus replied to Simon, \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid! From now on you\u2019ll be fishing for people!\u201d And as soon as they landed, they left everything and followed Jesus. (Luke 5:1-11)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\tJesus paid his debts. When Jesus borrowed one of Peter\u2019s boats as a platform for speaking to the crowd, he was not keeping Peter from doing his job. Fishermen did not fish during the daylight hours\u2014they went out at night, when the fish were easier to catch. During the day, they sorted through the previous night\u2019s catch and cleaned and repaired their nets. Sitting in Peter\u2019s boat to teach the crowd, Jesus was not interfering with Peter\u2019s livelihood. <\/p>\n

\tNevertheless, Jesus had \u201chired\u201d Peter\u2019s boat and so paid for it by telling Peter to go fishing. In response, Peter addressed him as \u201cmaster.\u201d The Greek word was merely an honorific. But after the fish had been caught, Peter used a different word. \u201cLord\u201d was used exclusively of God by the Jewish people of that era. With an enormous catch of fish in his nets, Peter responded to Jesus with fear, bowing before the Almighty. <\/p>\n

\tJesus compensated Peter generously for the boat. But then he went beyond that and offered him a better job: a position in the Kingdom of God. When we give Jesus our lives, he gives us himself and all that he has.<\/p>\n

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