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Friends,
today’s Gospel reports the Lord’s calling his first disciples. What is
it about this scene that is so peaceful and right? Somehow it gets at
the very heart of Jesus’ life and work, revealing what he is about. He
comes into the world as the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, a
representative from the community which is God—and thus his basic
purpose is to draw the world into community around him.”
“He
said to them, ‘Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.’”
There is so much packed into that simple line. Well, we notice the way
that God acts. He is direct, in your face; he does the choosing. Jesus
is not offering a doctrine, a theology, a set of beliefs. He is offering
himself. Become my disciple. Apprentice to me.
“And
I will make you fishers of men.” One of the best one-liners in the
Scripture. God is the creator, the one who makes us from nothing. And
what he makes us is always a reflection of himself: a fisher of men.
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