NOTES for Luk 5:5
The most important thing in relations between people is trust. And in relations between a person and God as well. Trust that sometimes turns out to stand even above one's own everyday and professional experience, when the experience of relations with a person testifies that in this concrete case trust can and should be placed above one's own everyday experience. Peter does not immediately understand who Jesus is. Later he will call Him the Messiah and the Son of the living God, but for now He is for him simply a mysterious righteous man and teacher, perhaps a prophet, but in any case a man of God, which there is certainly no reason to doubt.
And this man of God, who seems to understand nothing about fishing, while fishing on Lake Gennesaret is a very specific occupation understood only by someone who has tried it, advises him to cast the net where there is no point at all in casting it. None at all; this is clear to any fisherman on the Kinneret.
So what then: cast the net or not? Peter decides that it is worth trying. And the catch turns out to be unexpected, and unexpectedly large besides. Does God reward trust? Yes, one can say so. But the matter is not only that.
The matter is also what such trust means, what stands behind it. Whatever Peter may have thought Jesus was at that concrete moment, it is obvious that he trusted not only a human being, but God. And God first of all. But to trust God means to establish with Him entirely special relations, because trust presupposes personal relations, and personal relations are always unique. And therefore they are always entirely special.
And special relations include a person in God's plan, in one way or another, in one measure or another, but necessarily include him. And then, incidentally, a fisherman may quite well meet a school of fish where it usually does not happen. Simply because inclusion in God's plan means life no longer according to the laws of this world, but according to the laws of the Kingdom, even when, it would seem, it is still far away. For God the world has always remained the Kingdom. And in the Kingdom creation is fully obedient not only to God, but also to the human person. Including the fish too.