The Fourth Fisherman

The Fourth Fisherman by Joe Kissack is two different stories, two kinds of desperation, but yet both having the same need. The author his life, his rise to the height of what many dream of, yet at the top, he was unfulfilled. It wasn’t until he rose all the way to the top and then all the way down to the very bottom of life that he realized all his life what he had been missing. At the same time, a world away, there were some poor, desperate fishermen from Mexico lost and doing all they knew to do to survive. Both found their sustainer and deliver in Jesus Christ. As the author stated, when Jesus came in “It came as a trickle at first, then a rush, as if my heart was a bucket and hope was being poured into it. It filled me deep into my being, and I felt it…It flowed into me as if I was a withering plant, starving for water, a pure joy flooding my entire body until there was no more room left in me. It was real. Real joy” (p. 76). Both stories gripped your heart and the reader could relate in some way to both of the stories. It is two stories of redemption that cross paths only because of God’s ordained plan. This is an encouragement to those who have lost friends and family, it shows that they can find God, but it comes only by dying to oneself and finding that the only way to survive is by giving it all up and to Jesus.