Gone Fishing

We are so good at avoidance techniques, at losing focus – and we find all sorts of good ways of doing that. Brian McLaren’s book “The Church on the Other Side” (Zondervan, 1998, 2000, p. 142) retells a story which I am sure I have heard in some form previously. It’s about a fishing club. Its members avidly studied fish, discussed fishing techniques, read books and magazines on angling, bought the best equipment, held meetings to indulge their fascination with fish lore and, in general, led active, fish-oriented lives. But after a while somebody asked, “Has anyone actually caught one lately?” The room was silent. Quite so! Let us always be ready to find the focus that God wants us to take for any particular moment of our lives.