<p>5:7 <i>And they beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink</i>- Paul seems to allude here in saying that the desire for wealth can drown believers (1 Tim. 6:9). The Lord is warning them not to allow their desire for wealth and good income to drown them; rather they were to focus upon doing the work of the Gospel, and somehow all shall be provided.</p><p>It would seem that Peter as a working man had a love of his job. He left his fishing in Mark 1 to follow the Lord, but returned to it by Luke 5. Then he left it, and returned to it in the post-resurrection crisis. The Lord&rsquo;s provision of fish on the shore was simply saying: &lsquo;You don&rsquo;t need to fish any more&rsquo;. He asked them to drag the nets to land, which would usually have broken them, but they didn&rsquo;t break. Likewise He had earlier told fisherman Peter to cast the net on the other side, when Peter knew full well which side of the boat there were likely to be fish. And a whirlwind storm had come upon Galilee which would have drowned fisherman and sailor Peter were it not for the Lord&rsquo;s presence. In all these things, Peter was being taught to quit the life that he loved. &ldquo;Lovest thou me more than these?&rdquo; was asked with the huge catch of fish lying there on the shore- a fisherman&rsquo;s dream. It could be that the question referred to them. &lsquo;Go and feed <i>my</i> sheep rather than worry about <i>your </i>fish&rsquo;. When earlier the boats had begun to sink with too many fish, the word used for &lsquo;sinking&rsquo; occurs in 1 Tim. 6:9, about believers being drowned in materialism and thereby condemning themselves (Lk. 5:7). Whether it&rsquo;s a career that we love, a livelihood that we simply trust as a sure means of human survival, or the spiritual pride that we love the Lord more than our brethren, all these things are demanded of us by the demanding Lord, as we seek to follow Him to the cross.&nbsp;</p>