The best advice in the world is to always listen to Jesus and to always obey Him; the all-wise, all-knowing Son of God, and the smartest man to ever walk on earth.
In Luke 5, Peter gets this.
“Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.”
Peter, against his own intuition and his own logic and his own will, decided to do exactly as Jesus said, regardless of how he saw his effort or time or the outcome.
And Peter is rewarded for it. Look at the outcome.
There is a lesson there for all of us.
Necessary footnote: Sometimes the outcome of listening to Jesus and obeying His words has a difficult outcome, maybe even a bad outcome. Nevertheless, listening to Jesus and obeying Him is what He commands, regardless of outcomes.
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