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"If you are too busy to fish. You are too busy."
Some one once said.
I am way past retirement. In fact, well past my three score and ten
years.
So,
If I am ever going to learn to fish. I had better get with it.
Watching a video on crappie fishing was enlightening.
Three men were fishing off the bank of a farm pond.
And some one must have been running the video camera.
These men were catching fish right and left. First one man
and then another would catch a nice fish and put in their basket
thing in the water. Once in a while a fish was thrown back for
one reason or another. Obviously there was going to be a good
fish fry that night.
While the men were fishing and visiting, one was ask why he
fished from the bank instead of using a boat. He responded
by relating the experience of his friend.
This man's friend spent $18,000 on a bass boat. He hooked it
up behind his $30,000 pickup truck and went fishing.
He caught a two pound fish - and threw it back in.
Sounds to me like todays "Church".
There are fish all around us that could be caught with a cane
pole and a worm on a hook.
But we are more interested in the equipment than the fishing.
"And Jesus said to them,
'Follow me and I will make you become
fishers of men.'"
(Mark 1:17 RSV)
God, give us a heart to fish.
"If you are too busy to fish. You are too busy."
Some one once said.
I am way past retirement. In fact, well past my three score and ten
years.
So,
If I am ever going to learn to fish. I had better get with it.
Watching a video on crappie fishing was enlightening.
Three men were fishing off the bank of a farm pond.
And some one must have been running the video camera.
These men were catching fish right and left. First one man
and then another would catch a nice fish and put in their basket
thing in the water. Once in a while a fish was thrown back for
one reason or another. Obviously there was going to be a good
fish fry that night.
While the men were fishing and visiting, one was ask why he
fished from the bank instead of using a boat. He responded
by relating the experience of his friend.
This man's friend spent $18,000 on a bass boat. He hooked it
up behind his $30,000 pickup truck and went fishing.
He caught a two pound fish - and threw it back in.
Sounds to me like todays "Church".
There are fish all around us that could be caught with a cane
pole and a worm on a hook.
But we are more interested in the equipment than the fishing.
"And Jesus said to them,
'Follow me and I will make you become
fishers of men.'"
(Mark 1:17 RSV)
God, give us a heart to fish.
1 comment:
So true!
I live among a family of fly fishermen. They need very little prompting and not much equipment to make a case for a fishing expedition. Oh that the Church would do likewise.
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