Skip to main content

The Fisherman


This morning, I saw a man trying to catch fish. It was a very interesting scene for me as it is the first time I will be seeing it live. I was fascinated at the way the man caught the fishes because I have never heard of his method.

He held a small green net and a cutlass. He would throw a stone into the river at several points and somehow, this makes the fishes to come to the surface of the water which makes the man to pick them very easily. Wow! It was just very easy.

I was not the only one that was fascinated by the scene, but the other 'spectators' were not convinced at the ease with which the fishes made themselves available at the surface of the water. I just listened as they discussed and made speculations.

A woman said he was using 'something' while most men said he must have poured something into the river that made the fishes to move to the surface because they were not comfortable in the river again. When I heard that, my mind just traveled to where there is no time.

The man poured something into the river to make it uncomfortable for the fishes and when they came up, he grabbed them. Many times, we have behaved like the fishes and entered into the trap of the enemy.

There are a lot of things in the environment today that simply wants to get our attention so that we can be 'grabbed. They seek to shift our gaze from the Lord and just like the water wasn't comfortable for the fishes, the voices in the environment can be very loud that you feel that the only solution is to change your gaze from the LORD.

Examples abound in the bible. A popular one is that of Elimelech that left Bethlehem because of famine. The voice of the famine was so loud that the only reasonable thing to do was to leave for a place that has food. It's not a bad thing he did, after all, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob moves because of famine too, but he missed it.

Peter began to sink when he saw that the wind was boisterous while he was walking on water, the 10 spies couldn't just believe it, the Pharisees were carried away. The evidence they saw in their surrounding was very real.

Isaiah said something that is very profound in chapter 26 verse 3. At this time that it all seems 'hard' and 'everyone' is liberal about some things, make sure you don't compromise. Don't change the standard. Fishes live inside water.

Tomorrow is sunday. Check Psalm 37

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Prophetic Perspective: Israel vs Iran

The middle east situation between Israel and Palestine is a very complex one that can be viewed from many sides. Whichever perspective you choose, there will always be an unresolved issue. It is exactly a year that Hamas, a terrorist group in Palestine, dealt the biggest blow ever to the Israeli state, killing over 1000 Jews and abducting about 251. It sent a shock wave round the world. The October 7, 2023 attacks kick-started a war that has escalated to involve Lebanon, Syria, Qatar and Iran. Israel has gone all out attacking Palestine in a wave that many world leaders have been cautioning them to consider the civilians. ORIGIN OF THE WAR The origin of the war in the middle east can be traced back to the 1920s when Britain, in conjunction with the Arabs defeated the Ottoman military in Jerusalem and took the city as a colony of the British royalty.  It wasn't long before the British decided to release the land to the Arabs that fought alongside them. But, there was another set of ...
6 comments
Read more

Nigeria In The Bible

As we approach another celebration of the independence of the nation Nigeria, I will like us to know some things about this nation that the LORD has shown me. If a man wants to know the details of God's will for his life, he would need to read the things that have been written or said about him by God. Prophecy is one of the ways that the will of God can be known. Prophecy is voicing God's will. This same principle applies to territories as territories also have a will established by God for them to fulfill. In the scriptures, we see details of many nations that existed in that time. Nations like Israel, Egypt, Syria, Edom, Philistine, Babylon and in the new testament, we saw countries like Italy and Spain which still exists till today. Most of the nations that were mentioned in the old testament bear a new name today. There were some nations mentioned in the old testament, but their names were not specified. God, through the prophets spoke about the destiny of some na...
15 comments
Read more

Nine Years As A Scribe

So, last night, I was meditating about the things that God is doing in this times and it dawned on me that we are in a period where our minds are being bombarded with images, video and text. We are in the greatest period of media height. Everywhere you turn, you see something waiting for your mind to feed on. You're not free at any point in time from the floods coming from the various platforms. Majority of the contents in recent years are immoral and the cry for biblically sound and creative content has been going on for some years. Thank God for the success that we have recorded in the past few years. The media is being used to project several images into our minds. I did a small social experiment last month. I was speaking to a group of young boys in a school about Bobrisky. I asked how many of them would like to be like him and no one raised hand. Then I changed the question and said that if I tell you that I would give you 1 million every month and all I want from you is to be...
7 comments
Read more