Article November 6, 2000 Issue

I'm no fisherman

You've got what the Bible calls "dominion." Use it!

By Lorraine J. Armentrout

The first chapter of the Bible says that we have been given "dominion over the fish of the sea" (Gen. 1:26). Well, that's fine, but I'm no fisherman, so what does that have to do with me?

For years I read that verse without thinking much about it. Then, finally, I asked God to help me understand its relevance. Here's what I discovered.

One dictionary offers this colloquial definition of fish: "a person thought of as like a fish in being easily lured by bait, lacking intelligence or emotion, etc." This made me think of apathy, which causes people to accept whatever comes their way, including self-defeating thoughts. I decided to think of having "dominion over the fish of the sea" as having dominion, or control, over apathy, and I resolved to avoid taking any bait that would get me to think of myself as less than the child of God.

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