In today's Gospel, Matthew 13: 47-53, Jesus likens the Kingdom of heaven to "a net thrown into the sea, which collects fish of every kind." When Jesus called the apostles from their fishing boats, He told them that He would make them fishers of men. During His time here on earth in a physical body, Jesus, the Son of God, also went about "fishing" for men and women in need of a physician, persons needing healing of body, mind and spirit. He ate with sinners, spoke with sinners, raised sinners from the dead, promised Paradise to a thief dying on the cross next to him when he asked to be remembered by Jesus when He got to His Kingdom.
The Son of God was the transformation of God roaming throughout all of Galilee and the surrounding area. He was the Divine Potter reshaping people into the image and likeness of God in which each was made and about which each was commissioned to bring to fullness during their sojourn here on earth. Jesus showed the way to accomplish his work. He was the Way, the Truth, and the Life of God in our midst then and now!
May you and I realize ever more fully our mission to build God's Kingdom, as Jesus did and does!
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