Jesus does not call people of prodigious gifts or super-human faith. Jesus calls ordinary people, fisherman like Peter, ordinary people like you and me. But even without this reassurance, I still think we might find ourselves lured into following Jesus because it is a way of life so much more compelling than a life of utter safety, certainty and predictability. God has made us to be seekers of hope and promise. And in our struggle to be faithful, we all share the avid angler's persistent hope that, no matter how many fish we have caught in our day, there is always the possibility that the really big one is still lurking out there just waiting to be reeled in.
Bigger stories are yet to be told.
Jesus calls us to fish out the hope in our hearts that maybe there really is more to life than we have allowed, the promise that there is something within us calling us forth out there, something calling us out of our comfort zone into a life more rich and full and real than anything they have known before. It can be a surprising and dangerous thing, this new life of discipleship.