Difference between left and right side of boat

Question: What is the difference between the left and right side of a boat?
Answer: Enough fish to sink your commercial fishing vessel.

After Jesus Resurrection, the Disciples were renewed in hope but still in disarray. John and Peter decide to go fishing “to clear their heads” (I don’t know, just my imagination), but they are out all night with their buddies. It is not DEADLIEST CATCH and in fact it is emptiest catch. Nada, zip, zilch, zero, goose egg, and bump kiss is floating in the tank of the hold when the morning begins to break on the horizon, and a dark stranger calls out with a weird request.

“Toss the net over the other side.”

There is a quick round of smirks and hushed laughter. These are weather hardened men who have, 1) been up all night, 2) been working up a sweat, 3) likely gotten very hungry, 4) no patience for armchair quarterbacks, 5) have had their share of outside opinions and right now could serve up a very hot and tasty zinger that could melt the Devil’s socks off.
Before anyone makes the aforementioned snide remark, the net gets tossed as suggested. That 6-8’ of difference is the kind of thing the Captains of the Maverick and Time Bandit would sell their souls for. More fish than what the boat could carry.
How often have we found ourselves doing what we know to do, with out success? God says, “trust me, and toss the net over the other side”. ? ? ? But Lord, There is no difference between the water on this side of the boat and that side. It is the same lake. We did not move the boat. The net did not get bigger. Lord, “What if we make a bigger net? Or yank it out faster, or leave it in longer, or use a rocket launching system, or make a giant kite to fly it out, and drop it far from the boat? Could we use the Internet and electronic imaging systems to track the moving of the schools?

“Toss the net over the other side”.

This is not about technical skill. Ecclesiastes 9:11, “I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happens to them all.” God has a plan of action that is in fact a puzzle that He has designed to foil the pride of man. 1 Corinthians 1:26-28 “For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are".

God asks the impossible, but simple. See what can’t be seen. Do it ‘cause He said so. Any more questions?