Luke 5:1-11 (ESV)
¹ On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret,
² and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.
³ Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat.
⁴ And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”
⁵ And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.”
⁶ And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking.
⁷ 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.
⁸ But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”
⁹ For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken,
¹⁰ and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.”
¹¹ And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.

“But at your word I will let down the nets.”

Peter, a professional fisherman, decided to trust a land-loving carpenter/rabbi who had just told him to do something he had spent all night proving wouldn’t work.

Lord, I don’t think this will work.  But at your word I will do it anyway…

Do we have this same amount of trust?

Be baptized in order to be saved (Mk. 16:16; Acts 2:38).  I don’t see what getting dunked in water has to do with being saved…but at your word, Lord, I will do it anyway.

Come to the worship assemblies (Heb. 10:25).  I could just as easily pray and sing at home…or on my boat out on the lake…but at your word, Lord, I will do what you say.

Sing when you worship Me, and let the instrument you play be your heart (Eph. 5:19; Col. 3:16).  But I am really talented on the piano and guitar, and it would be great to use those talents in worship to You…but at your word, Lord, I will do what you say.

Completely avoid, even to the point of not eating with them or giving them a greeting, anyone in the church who is proven to be caught up in unrepentant sin (1 Cor. 5:1-13; 2 Thess. 3:6, 14-15; Tit. 3:9-11; 2 John 9-11; Rom. 16:17-18).  I just don’t see how anything good can come from that at all…but at your word, Lord, I will do it anyway.

How much do we trust Jesus, really?