When it was already dawn, Jesus was standing on the shore;
John 21:4-6
but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus.
Jesus said to them, “Children, have you caught anything to eat?”
They answered him, “No.”
So he said to them, “Cast the net over the right side of the boat and you will find something.”
So they cast it, and were not able to pull it in because of the number of fish.
Often, I hear stories from people about what’s not working for them. And if they’re Christians, this is my go-to response from the New Testament. It reminds me of a quote from the late Wayne Dyer, “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” So I ask them, “what do you think casting your net to the other side means in this situation?” Often they don’t know, but I tell them to think about, meditate on it, pray for enlightenment.
For me, it means if we think about and focus on the problem, the worry, the fear, the very thing we don’t want, we’ll get more of exactly what we don’t want. So why do people do that? But if we trust in God and cast our nets to the other side, thinking and focusing on the answer, the solution, the healing, the fish, then we will find it in abundance. It’s a shift in mental focus.
I would love to hear stories in the comments of how a situation changed for you or a friend when you focused your attention on the right side of the boat.
