Drawn from darkness to light

Morning: psalms 5, 6; Isaiah 40:25-31; Ephesians 1:15-23

Evening: psalms 10, 11; Mark 1:14-28

Sometimes I don’t like what the Gospels say, often because there’s something I do not understand.  For example, when Jesus calls fishermen to “fish for people”, it sounds offensive to me.  But then I learn that the word here for ‘to fish’ in the original Greek means literally to bring people from darkness into light, as you would draw a fish out of the dark depths.  As if to confirm this, the Gospel tells next about Jesus healing a man “with an unclean spirit” … Jesus brings him out of the dark depths of mental illness into a brighter place.