Outer Mongolia

Matthew 4:19

"Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men."

Jesus was talking to Simon and Peter when he said that. They were fishermen, therefore that statement made all the sense in the world. But in some interpretations of God, that doesn’t work. Isn’t God supposed to shake our lives up and send us to do far away things in far away places? I mean Andrew and Simon were probably good at fishing, they understood it and maybe even liked it. So why would God ask them to do that? Wouldn't God send them to outer Mongolia?

The truth is that when we turn ourselves over to God, he doesn’t make us into someone else. He makes us into who we have always been, who we were created to be. He amplifies the parts of us that are true, that are of him. He purifies the dreams we’ve always had or the skills we’ve always used. He doesn’t turn poets into mathematicians or scientists into painters. If anything, he gives artists even more colours to create with, and scientists even bigger labs to experiment in.

Come, follow Jesus, and he will make you into you.