No Choice 4
In Mt 17:24-27, Jesus needed tax money, so he told Peter to go fishing and he’d find the money in the first fishes mouth. Now Peter had a choice.
“That’s silly, I’ve never heard of a getting money out of a fishes mouth.” My daddy and granddaddy were fishermen. I’ve heard all kinds of fish tales, never money in a fishes mouth.
“Where did that fish get that money?” Maybe a tax collector, could have been walking by the seashore with the money bag on his belt, when it may have got a hole in it and a coin fell out and rolled into the water. Maybe a fish that God had prepared bit it. Well, he couldn’t get it down and he couldn’t get it up. He may have rather had a worm, but he was commanded of God to bite the coin instead.
Now Peter’s got a choice, but the fish didn’t have a choice. As soon as Peter threw out his line, he had to beat all the other fish, and be the first one on the line.
God’s got a fish out there for you, but you’ll never catch it, if you don’t cast out your line! Here’s a bigger fish tale…..