Are you still learning to fish?

[mizpeh]

Part 3

After one stirring reading on the necessity for fishing, one young fellow left the meeting and went fishing.

The next day he reported that he had caught two outstanding fish!

He was honored for his excellent catch and scheduled to visit all the big meetings possible to tell how he did it.

So he stopped his fishing in order to have time to tell about his experience to the other fishermen.

Now it is true that many of the fishermen sacrificed and put up with all kinds of difficulties.

Some lived near the water and bore the smell of dead fish every day.

They received the ridicule of some who made fun of their fishermen's clubs and the fact that they claimed to be fishermen, yet, never fished.

They wondered about those who felt it was of little use to attend the weekly meetings to talk about fishing.

Afterall were they not following the Master who said, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men?".

Imagine how hurt some were when one day, a person suggested that those who did not catch fish were really not fishermen, no matter how much they claimed to be.

Yet it did sound correct.

Is a person a fisherman if he never catches a fish?

Is one following if he is not fishing?