Mark 1:17-18
“‘Come, follow me,’ Jesus said, ‘and I will send you out to fish for people.’ At once they left their nets and followed Him.”
While served as a pastor of a church in Burns, Oregon, one of the men in our congregation invited me to go fishing with him. He said he knew of a lake that had large trout and he had always had good luck when fishing there.
We arrived at the lake and noticed three men fishing close together. It was apparent that they were together and they were also catching very large fish. When I say they were catching them, I mean that on virtually every cast they would land a fish or at least get a good strike.
We could hardly wait to get our poles out and bait up so we could catch some of those large trout for ourselves. Try as we might we never got a nibble all the time we were there. Even when we fished at the same spot they were angling, we could not entice a bite. We discovered that the men were using steelhead eggs that they had prepared from an earlier steelhead fishing trip near the Oregon coast.
Without the proper bait no one around that lake caught a single fish. In the same way we need to have the bait to reach the lost. Jesus called fishermen to leave their pursuit of fish and go after the souls of men and women. To do that, they had to have the proper bait.
Reading the Gospels we discover that the disciples had no success until the Holy Spirit came and endued them with power. The Spirit guided and directed them to just the right place, at the right time, with the right message. The result was an ingathering of souls.
Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!
– – – Pastor Cecil (360) 570-0074
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