Success, All Divine – Charles Spurgeon

IT is very significant that before Christ fed the thousands, he made the disciples sum up all their provisions. It was well to let them see how low the commissariat had become, for then when the crowds were fed they could not say the basket fed them, nor that the lad had done it. God will make us feel how little are our barley loaves, and how small our fishes, and compel us to inquire, “What are they among so many?” When the Savior bade his disciples cast the net on the right side of the ship, and they dragged such a mighty shoal to land, he did not work the miracle until they had confessed that they had toiled all the night and had taken nothing. They were thus taught that the success of their fishery was dependent upon the Lord, and that it was not their net, nor their way of dragging it, nor their skill and are in handling their vessels, but that altogether and entirely their success came from their Lord.