Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. Matthew 4:19
A splash.
And a whole lot of waiting.
That is what comes to mind when I think about fishing.
In this day and age, as in days gone by, most fishing is done with a rod and a reel, but this is not the fishing of Peter and James and John. Their fishing was done in nets and was evaluated not on the size of a single fish [it was THIS big] but rather on the quantity of fish. They didn't fish to have lunch, they fished for a job, to sell their fish, to survive, and to live.
I wonder if Jesus' offer to be fishers of men has been limited in our minds because of the way we understand the illustration. And so we get a person here and a person there to believe, while Peter gets 3000 (Acts 2:41). I don't know if we can accomplish that, but let's let God decide how big the catch is, instead of us.
+ Which vision of fishing comes to mind when reading this statement: a rod and a reel or a net?
+ What will it take for you to broaden your mind of what is and is not possible?
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