Jesus often refers to his disciples as “fishers” of
people. He gives this illusion and
charge for us to be fishers. This week
reflecting on this I couldn’t help but think of the different ways in which we
can be fisherman. (or fisherwomen).
There is the fishing with rods, in which you pick your bait, put it on a
hook and sit waiting for the fish to come.
This style of fishing is very passive and in fact does not take a lot of
work. This style of fishing is also
pretty slow. The fishing that happens in
the Bible is a much more aggressive form.
Instead of just sitting around waiting for one fish to arrive, fishermen
put nets into the water and as they scoop around they sweep up bunches of fish
at a time. This form of fishing isn’t
choose but instead all types of fish are up for grabs. And this is the style of fishers we all need
to be! Not passive, certainly not choose
and we don’t need any lame bait because the Good News of Jesus is pretty much
all we need.
We are called not to judge because everyone is worthy of God’s
love. We are called to proclaim Jesus to
all we meet not just a few because we are not called to evangelize to only one
at a time but instead to everyone we meet.
So this week ponder what type of Fisher are you? And what type is God calling us to be? And
how to we move between?
