“Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net. And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.”
(Lk. 5:4-6)
I heard an old preacher once say, “Dead fish float to the top, but the live ones stay at the bottom.” The Great Fisherman told these professional/commercial fishermen that if they wanted a net-breaking bounty they should go into deep waters. And so it is with us, spiritually: if we desire net-breaking blessing in our lives, we too must go deep.
In His famous story of the Seed and the Sower our Lord explicitly tells His followers why some have no fruit in their lives. It is because they lack depth; no deep roots, if you please. The Bible way is to “take root downward and bear fruit upward.” In Jeremiah, God tells two different peoples to “dwell deep,” to be safe from their enemy.
Having a great intellect is no guarantee for spiritual depth. Neither is illiteracy necessarily a drawback. Paul, one of the greatest minds that ever graced this earth, if not the greatest, told the learned Corinthian believers as much. Spiritual depth, says he, has to do with Spiritual people.The deep things of God come by way of the Spirit of God!
If we are to go to the deep, it must be by faith. We each have a call to the deep, “He brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles. Again he ...brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he...brought me through; the waters were to the loins. Afterward ... the waters were risen, waters to swim in...”
“Some waters are not deep, they’re just muddy.”
(rds)
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