Again, we should let down the net at Christ's bidding, because:
2. That about which we should be chiefly concerned is our present and immediate duty, and leave the result to God. This is what is required of the disciples here. Christ says, "Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets." They might have objected, from the fact that they had been toiling all night, but they wisely referred the event to Christ-at thy word, we will do it.
3. Christ's command is itself an intimation that he designs to accompany the effort that is made in his name with a divine blessing. I suppose the disciples understood the Lord Jesus Christ as giving such an intimation. The prophet Ezekiel was brought by the Spirit of God, and placed in a valley of dry bones. The prospect was forbidding, he could take no encouragement from what he saw; but he knew the power and grace of God, and he took the command, "Go and prophesy," to be an intimation that God would bless the effort,
Whatever we find to be the will of Christ, we may rest assured that there is a design to accompany with a blessing what is done in accordance with his mind. and will; that is, what is done faithfully and prayerfully. We need no more certain evidence that God designs to add his blessing, than to know that he requires his people to be actively engaged in his work. If he says, "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse," we may rest assured that what follows is true—"will I not open unto you the windows of heaven," &c. Does he say, "Launch out into the deep, and let
