The Carpenter Who Taught The Fisherman How To Fish

While listening to yesterday's sermon by the mass celebrant, I was so struck by what he said about "The carpenter who taught the fisherman how to fish". I do not know why it struck me so, at least for now that I haven't reflected much about it.

So, it's been a year and two months since I wrote the very paragraph there on top. Nothing comes to mind as I try to reflect more about it. I, most likely, am founding it to be something more complicated, or deep, than my brain can currently comprehend. Then, I asked: Is it something always deep or complicated?

Looking at it from a surface point of view, it does not really make sense for someone with a totally different profession to teach another about their profession of which they are adept at.

But, it became and becomes a different story between Simon Peter and Our Lord Jesus Christ. Peter, an impulsive and a man that may be quick to action, humbled himself before someone whom he does not know; or at the very least, may have heard about.

On top of this surprising (surprising in a sense that it's coming from Peter), Peter humbled himself to doing something he has done a thousand times in his life, because a carpenter told him to do so.

Wait, a carpenter instructing a fisherman how to fish and what did I learn from this exactly?

I think I can say that sometimes the actions we ought to take as a response to what God is telling us to do may not make sense. But, we have to surrender to what He is telling us to do. Yes, we have free will for sure; but, God also knows that what He is telling us to do is best for us.

Of course, these things may be easier said than done because after all most of these, if not all would require us to totally surrender and entrust everything to God, and it makes us afraid. Not afraid of trusting God, afraid because this entails that we won't have control and we all love to have control.

Take me for example, I'd pray for something and I'd tell the Lord that I'll surrender everything to Him; but, after just around 20 minutes, I find myself doing things that are contrary to "surrendering".