"Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men." ~Matthew 4:19When Jesus gave this call to His disciples there are three things He lift off; for good reason I might add.
He never said:
1) It would be easy.
2) It would come quickly.3) They would never make mistakes.
Why didn't Jesus say these things? I mean, it certainly would have comforted the disciples and made them want to follow Him more, right? Well, we forget, Jesus is Truth.
He didn't say things to His disciples because they weren't the Truth.
If fishing for men (that's Christian for "sharing our faith") was meant to be easy, Jesus would have never left this promise at the end of the Great Commission "...And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” ~Matthew 28:20b Would Jesus have said this if He knew we wouldn't struggle and ultimately need Him to complete taste He had set before us; which was to "go and make disciples of all nations"?
I struggle with what I call "a fear of sharks."
