BIBLE READING: LEVITICUS 23, 24; MARK 1:1-22
“Come ye after me and I will make you to become fishers of men” Mark 1:17 (KJV).
Jesus likes to communicate the gospel to people in the language they can easily understand and relate to. He used physical and earthly things to relate spiritual and heavenly truth and principles. He had a way of simplifying the gospel that it will take the devil to make the hearer not to understand the message.
Unfortunately today, most people try to complicate the gospel. It is not the complication of the gospel that saves people but the simplicity of the gospel with the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus often uses natural things like, wind, salt, light, day, night, farming, warring, fishing, wrestling and such principles are effectively communicated, well understood and responded to appropriately by his followers.
Here, Jesus met Simon and Andrew by the Sea of Galilee casting net into the Sea as fishers. He did not use legal terms for them or political term but fishing language they can easily related to. “Come ye after me and I will make you to become fishers of men” Mark 1:17 (KJV). The implication is, from today as you change master and as you change company, I will use your skill and net differently. I will use it to fulfill kingdom purpose. Your assignment will no longer be fish but men. Money will no more be your pursuit but you will pursue ministry. It is not a call to be idle but a call to be relevant to God and his kingdom.
Prayer: Oh God, help me to remain relevant to you and your kingdom.
Rev. Vincent Diolu