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Originally Posted by ModestMama
That's a beautiful analogy. Thank you for your reassuring and kind words Bro.
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You're welcome, Sis.
Do you remember when Jesus finds James and John and Simon and Andrew and calls them, telling them "I will make you fishers of men", what they were doing at the time?
They were cleaning and mending their nets. These large seine nets catch many fish, but they also catch other things, useless things, damaging things, things that don't serve any purpose or profit to the fisherman who use them.
These things have to be plucked out, cut out, washed off, and etc., and then, if the net has been at all damaged, the net needs to be repaired before it can be used again.
So, if the church really is like a seine net, there is going to be all kinds of detritus and debris that makes its way into the net and gets tangled up in the nodes where each piece of netting is knotted together. It's a natural part of what the church/net is used for by the Lord.
So when something comes your way, don't be surprised. It's part of going out into the sea that is the world in an attempt to land a catch and bring lost souls into the Kingdom of God.
Therefore, allow the Lord and His ministry to help pluck or cut out and wash you of any of these damaging, useless things, just as Simon and Andrew and James and John did with their nets.
Because for the most part, dreams are useless. Too much stock is placed in them, sometimes. God used Jeremiah to ask "What is the chaff compared to the wheat"? He was speaking about dreams versus the Word of the Lord. Most dreams are simply chaff, and like chaff, can be collected up and thrown into the fire, without further concern.
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