Day 5 – Matthew 4:12-25
If I walked up to you at Taco Bell and said, “drop your burrito and follow me” you would probably
think I was crazy and you’d call the police or punch me out. But for the guys you read about today;
Simon, Andrew, James, and John it was a different story. They followed. They dropped everything
and followed Christ. Why?
I think it’s because Jesus gave them a calling that was bigger than their trade—fishing. He used
terms they could identify with to talk about a more important type of fishing—people. Fishing for
souls—changed lives. A more attractive catch don’t you think? Think about it, what would you rather
do? Pull in a big-eyed bass or open the door to heaven for someone in desperate need to walk
through? Can you see why they dropped everything and followed? They sensed a higher calling.
Some say Jesus asked them because fishermen had to have patience and faith to fish. Patience
in the waiting game and faith that there were actually fish out there. Do you think you have what it
takes to follow Christ’s call to be fishers of people? Do you have patience to allow God to use your
life to send a message to your non-believing friends? Do you have faith that God can and will use
you? If you do, drop your nets and follow him…there’s a lot of lost fish out there who need what you
have and who you know.
MATTHEW 4:12 Now when he heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee;13 and leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the borders of Zebulun and Naphtali:14 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,15 The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,16 The people that sat in darkness
17 From that time began Jesus to preach, and to say, Repent ye; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
18 And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brethren, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishers.19 And he saith unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you fishers of men.20 And they straightway left the nets, and followed him.21 And going on from thence he saw two other brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.22 And they straightway left the boat and their father, and followed him.
23 And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of disease and all manner of sickness among the people.24 And the report of him went forth into all Syria: and they brought unto him all that were sick, holden with divers diseases and torments, possessed with demons, and epileptic, and palsied; and he healed them.25 And there followed him great multitudes from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judaea and from beyond the Jordan.
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