What are you fishing with? It will make a difference!
Using a vivid childhood memory of fishing in Scotland, Philip Cameron contrasts small, limited tools with vast, modern nets to show how God calls us to expand our vision and trust His resources for a far greater purpose.
Transcript
It all depends on what you're fishing with. When I was a boy back in Scotland, we used to go down most afternoons after school, down to the harbour, we'd get on the deck of a boat that was in from fishing, and we'd find a heron under the gunwales or in a net or whatever, and we'd cut it up and we'd put on a wee hook and with a square wooden frame that we wrapped our line around, we couldn't afford a rod or a reel. You just fished off the end of the boat. And we caught one fish. It was a great day's fishing. I was standing on the deck of a boat with vast nets and sonar in the cabin that they could literally see the size of the shoal of fish underneath them. And in one vacuum, they could literally hundreds of tons of fish. Our fishing town is the number one whitefish port in all of Europe. It's crazy. The fish in the sea didn't know the difference. The difference was what I was using to catch the fish compared to what they were using to catch the fish. Sometimes we restrict ourselves in our purpose and our vision. And it's so small and so meager that to catch one fish once in a while, we think we're doing great when God has resources and the means by which he can turn and transform your life in a moment's time. The boys, the disciples had been fishing all night and caught nothing. And Jesus says, put your net over the other side of the cot as they describe it. A great draft of fish. 153, one for every kind was in the Sea of Galilee. You see, it wasn't the fish's fault. It was the fisherman's fault. And God wants you to expand your nets for a greater catch. It'll change your life. It's the fisherman's fault. It's the fisherman's fault. It's the fisherman's fault.





