What Would You Do if You Hit the Jackpot??

I'm supposed to be reading through Luke in my morning quiet time.  But I keep going back to Luke 5:1-11...it's a familiar story, but this idea keeps rolling through my mind:

Peter, James, John, and possibly other men, at Jesus' command, pull in the biggest catch of their lives.  It was so big, the nets broke - and yet STILL they "filled both ships, so that they began to sink." (verse 7).

This is what they did for a living.  This catch was no doubt THE biggest catch they'd ever had - the biggest "payday" of their lives!  Can you imagine - what if they could catch fish like this EVERY night?  They'd be RICH!  No more worries, no more stress - think of all the GOOD they could do with their new-found wealth!

But verse 11 says, "When they brought their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him."

     They left the fish in the boats.
     They left the boats on the shore.    
     They didn't run to the market.
     They didn't run to the bank.
     They didn't even run and tell their families.

Their eyes were not on the fish, the catch, the "paycheck."  Nor were their eyes on what the could DO with that paycheck.

     Their eyes were on Jesus.
     Their focus was on the man who created the fish.  Who made it possible to catch the fish.
     Their focus was on Jesus - because Jesus Himself is greater than any "paycheck."

And I keep wondering - where's my focus?