In Order to Succeed........

Something has to change in us.
This is what happened when Jesus appear to His disciples besides the sea of Galilee, after they had caught nothing for all night. He said to them, "Cast your net on the right hand side of the boat and you will get some" (John 21:6) and the bible says when they obeyed Jesus's voice they couldn't haul in the net because of there were so many fish in it.
Now, with a human mind we could easy dis-agree with what a carpenter(Jesus) would say to a fisherman (Professionals - Simon Peter one of them) who has been fishing for a long time( same way with same attitude - no change even when there's nothing to catch.
The lesson here is that if we want to succeed we have to be obedient to God.
Jesus tested the disciples' obedience so that they could learn that blessings comes from obeying. In our relationship with God, success follows obedience, even when what He is asking us to do seems ridiculous to us. We are not clever than God. We can’t keep doing the same things or go against God's words or do all the wrong things and expect success and good things to happen. Success only comes as we are willing to listen to Jesus and do what he says.

Another lesson is to have a humble heart (humility). As we have learned that the disciples were professional fishermen.  So they had to be humble enough to do what Jesus said rather than trusting what they had personally learned about fishing. It was not just what they had learned through experience but what their parents had taught them. What he was asking them to do did not seem that different from what they had been doing all night.  But when it is time to follow God, we can’t give up and we can’t always depend on our own knowledge. Jesus wants us to have a teachable spirit. I am convinced that having a teachable spirit is one of the most important characteristics that we can have in life. There are some people among us to whom you simply can’t tell them anything, because they think they already know it all. They don’t want any body's advise. They don’t want to hear it and so they never learn.  We have to have humility and a willing spirit.
After king David had committed adultery with Bathsheba, he prayed and said, "Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and make me willing to obey you"  (Psalm 51:12) And so we should be willing to listen to Jesus and do what he says. 
One more lesson is that, we meet God when we come to the end of our resources.
The disciples had been fishing all night. They had done all they could do. They knew the best fishing holes. They were experts at their trade they knew how to use their fishing knowledge but they still had no fish. They were at the end of what they could do. Their resources were spent. At the point where we give up is often when God shows up. That is when Jesus appeared to them and asked them to cast their net on their right hand side!
Remain blessed