Right-hand Side of the Boat

Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn?
(Nah, just my Phillip and granddog, Gabe,
floating the Coosa River)

"We know what real love is because Jesus gave up His life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters." (1 John 3:16)

Do you remember the story in John chapter 21 when the resurrected Jesus told Peter and a few other disciples to throw their nets on the right-hand side of the boat and they hauled in  153 flip-flopping fish? Well, a couple of years ago, Jesus used that story to tell me to cast my books on the right-hand side: give away more than we sell. 

Beloved, giving is the God-like thing to do. "For this is how much God loved the world, He gave His one and only Son, Jesus, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16).