John 21:10

John 21:10 says, Jesus saith unto them, "Bring the fish which ye have now caught."  We notice again that Jesus had not needed their fish in order to feed them, but He did ask them to bring their catch to Him. We today are promised that as His followers our needs will be met, but we still need to bring everything we have to God.  I personally believe that the idea that ten percent is God's and the rest is ours to do with as we please is wrong.  We are to bring everything to God, and after He meets our needs, we are to pray that He will direct us on how to use the other ninety percent.  Again, my personal belief, I don't believe that God expects us to live in abundance while others go hungry.  Verse eleven says, Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land, full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was the net not broken.  Peter had left the ship to get to Jesus, but he was quick to do what Jesus instructed them to do.  Matthew Henry says that this order to bring the fish was to teach them that blessings were not to be buried and laid up, but to be used and laid out.  They had been unable to bring the net in until they were working under the command of Jesus.  We today may be struggling to accomplish things in life because we are working under our own power instead of the power of God.  We must allow God to be in control of everything we do.  We are called to be fishers of men but if we are struggling with empty or broken nets, as the disciples struggled and failed to catch anything before being directed by Jesus, we need to make sure we are following His command.  When we do, we may start to have an abundance of souls being saved.  God has promised to provide for our needs, not our wants, and we need to bring everything we are blessed with to Him.