Follow Me

Two words to working fishermen mid-shift, with a promise attached: I will make you fishers of men. They left the nets immediately.

Jesus did not hand out a philosophy to adopt but a person to follow, and the verb is present continuous: keep following. Notice who does the making in the promise. Our part is proximity and motion. The transformation, I will make you, is entirely his.

Following is a direction, not a location, so answer it daily: what is the next step he is asking, however small? Take that one. The made-into-something-new part is not your department.