“So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, 153 of them. And although there were so many, the net was not torn.” John 21:1
Echo
Luke 5:6 — “…they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking.”
The scene
After a long night of fruitless labor, the disciples haul in a miraculous catch. The net strains under the weight of abundance—but it does not tear. This Honey Drop speaks to those who’ve been stretched by blessing, burdened by grace, and wonder if they’ll hold.
The tension, the comfort
The net should have broken. The weight was too much. Why didn’t it? What holds when we don’t have the strength? There is a paradox here; of fragility and faithfulness, how truth, covenant, and divine design hold us when we’re sure we’ll snap.
The net was made for this. Not by accident, but by grace. The same hands that filled it also wove it. The net holds not because of its strength, but because of its source. And so do we.
Sidebar: Truth and the Net
In Greek, the word for net in John 21:11 is δίκτυον—a woven structure, not a single strand. It holds because it’s interlaced. Likewise, ἀλήθεια (truth) in John’s Gospel is not abstract—it’s tensile. It binds, bears, and bears witness.
The drop
Sweet Honey Drop
Truth is the thread
That holds the haul
When grace weighs heavy.
The net did not break—
Not because it was strong,
But because it was woven
In the waiting.
Every knot a prayer,
Every loop a promise.
And when the fish came,
The net remembered
What the night had taught it.
δίκτυον (net): not torn, though full
ἀλήθεια (truth): not brittle, though tested
The net did not break because it was woven in waiting. So too, truth is not a brittle creed but a braided covenant—knotted through nights of nothing and mornings of miracle.
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