It’s Memorial Day weekend, and summer has officially begun, which means the movie Jaws will play approximately 3,459 times over the next three months, and that means plenty of people are going to hear the movie’s most famous line a lot.
(Side note: the line was actually ad libbed, but only after being subconsciously planted in the mind of the actor who said it.)
As Roy Scheider’s character is throwing the chum into the water, he gets his first look — an extremely up-close look! — at the shark, and then slowly backs away while muttering the now famous words:
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
The need for a bigger structure to be able to handle an overwhelming mission is natural, but I wonder if there may be a supernatural response that God has in mind for us.
At the very beginning of Jesus’ public ministry, as he was beginning to call his disciples to follow him, Jesus told the fisherman soon to be fishers of men to let their nets down for another catch. They were tired, had already started cleaning up after a long night of unsuccessful fishing, and yet they decided to do what he asked. Luke’s gospel tells us what happened next.