I’ve started taking these fish oil pills, omega-3 to be specific.  I’ve known the benefits of fish oils for some time now, but the problem has been that I hate fish.  (I know, I would have made a terrible disciple, ‘Fish again Jesus? Couldn’t you multiply some burgers or something.”).  So I’ve started taking these supplements.  Figure they can’t hurt.

The problem is: that mentality tends to extend over into my Christian life. Recently, I found myself really struggling in the battle.  Everything seemed so opposed and so hard.  Nothing seemed to be working out the way I had hoped, and I felt on the brink of just turning in my badge and retiring to Tahiti.  But what I wanted even more was for God or someone to just make it all better: to increase my faith or provide some concrete evidence of the reason for my journey or at least take away some of the pain.

Now understand, I do believe that both God and others are able to do this.  Revelations from our Father, books, seminars and obviously the Bible have all offered direction and clarity in the haze of the battle, and I am thankful for those.  But God, I believe, was up to something more than a quick fix, than a pill to battle the free radicals circulating through my blood stream.  He was teaching me to consume fish.

At Knight Vision, we like to talk a lot about who we are in Christ, about all that He has accomplished for us. Sometimes though, that message can drown out the other half of the equation.  That other half is our growing and maturing in faith and our journey as God fathers us through the trials.  It’s that ‘thorn in the flesh’ that Paul speaks of 2 Corinthians 12, that God allowed so that Paul could learn of the sufficient grace of our God in all circumstances.

I’m still not eating fish … but I am learning to walk with the Fisher of men.  For that too is much of the battle.

To the King,

David