Make me!
"Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men."
I am not trying to create some new theology today, but I did have a simple thought. Jesus didn’t say that He would make us rich. Jesus didn’t say that He would make us a better leader. Jesus didn’t say that He would make us better fathers. What He did say is that He would make us fishers of men. Matter of fact as I look through Scripture I don’t see much of what He will make us, but I find several places where He will make us into fishers of men. The question for me today is, “How does He fish for men?” The answers are simple: He has love, He has compassion, He has forgiveness, He has power, He has answers, and we could go on and on. We know how the principal works of following Him. We follow Him and we become like Him. His character begins to shine through us. The key for this transformation taking place is that we “follow” Him. We take His lead. We react the way he would react in a situation. We follow His leading and example. The key that many are missing in their walk with Christ is they are not following completely. We say to ourselves, “There are many things that I can embrace about my faith, but that fishing for men stuff is just not for me.” Really, the one thing that Jesus said He would make us, and you want to deny yourself what He would make us into. As I heard Ed Young say once, “followers fish, and fisherman follow.”
I am not trying to create some new theology today, but I did have a simple thought. Jesus didn’t say that He would make us rich. Jesus didn’t say that He would make us a better leader. Jesus didn’t say that He would make us better fathers. What He did say is that He would make us fishers of men. Matter of fact as I look through Scripture I don’t see much of what He will make us, but I find several places where He will make us into fishers of men. The question for me today is, “How does He fish for men?” The answers are simple: He has love, He has compassion, He has forgiveness, He has power, He has answers, and we could go on and on. We know how the principal works of following Him. We follow Him and we become like Him. His character begins to shine through us. The key for this transformation taking place is that we “follow” Him. We take His lead. We react the way he would react in a situation. We follow His leading and example. The key that many are missing in their walk with Christ is they are not following completely. We say to ourselves, “There are many things that I can embrace about my faith, but that fishing for men stuff is just not for me.” Really, the one thing that Jesus said He would make us, and you want to deny yourself what He would make us into. As I heard Ed Young say once, “followers fish, and fisherman follow.”
