[Manna - October 4]
Jesus saith unto them, Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men. Matthew 4:19
ALL of life's affairs will teach us lessons profitable
throughout its future, if we will receive them.
Perhaps
there was something peculiarly helpful in the
fishing business—something peculiarly like the great
work in which the apostles were to engage the remainder
of their lives.
Our Lord intimates this in His
call.
Fishing requires energy, tact, proper bait and
that the fisherman keep himself out of sight.
And
these four things are requisites in the spiritual fishing
in which the Lord privileges us to engage.
We are
to remember that as fish are easily alarmed when
they find that any one wishes to take them, so humanity
is shy of being captured by anything—especially
if they have the least suspicion that they may lose
their liberties: and thus consecration appears to the
world. Z.'04-26,27 R3308:3