Thursday, May 28, 2015

May 28, 2015

"Come, follow Me, Jesus said, and I will make you fishers of men." Mark 1:17

A friend reminded me that "God doesn't call the qualified.  He qualifies the called."

As you notice, this is exactly how Jesus called His disciples; straight from whatever occupied their time to follow Him.

I will always be grateful for one such faithful man who taught me it was Jesus Who bought my salvation at the cost of His very life's blood on the cross.

A blacksmith, still with the smut of the coal on his hands, stood every Sunday for three years as my Sunday School teacher.

The day I was saved he was among the first to take my hand and hug me close as the continuing expression of his joy that I and 11 other twelve year old boys had been saved. 

He took Jesus at His word and became a "fisher of men."  

Seventy-plus years later I am a living testimony of his faithfulness to God.

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