Fishing

Hooked! (Thinking about something all the time.)

“Hooked on fishing pg 14,” it says at the top of the front page of our local paper. (The Northland Age, Tuesday, November 10, 2015)

The story and pictures are on the last page.

Reading that makes me wide awake. Why?

Because in Matthew 4:19 the Bible says, “‘Come, follow me,'” Jesus said, “‘and I will make you fishers of men.'” Read also Mark 1:17.

Hooked means to be obsessed with. Obsessed means thinking about something all the time.

Let us encourage one another to think all the time about fishing of men.

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song,” is a quote by Joan Walsh Anglund, a children’s author.

ARE WE SINGING BECAUSE WE HAVE AN ANSWER?

or

ARE WE SINGING BECAUSE WE HAVE A SONG?

King Jehoshaphat and his people. (Second Chronicles chapter twenty)

King Jehoshaphat was in deep trouble. He had to defend himself against the Moabites and the Ammonites. In Second Chronicles 20:12 the Bible says, “‘For we have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon you.'”

The king talked to the people and appointed men to sing to the LORD.

In the same chapter we read in verse 22 that, when they began to sing, the LORD set ambushes against the enemies and they were defeated.

King Jehoshaphat and his people were singing because they had a song.

Paul and Silas in prison. (Acts chapter 16:16 to the end)

Instead of being miserable in prison, they both sang hymns to God and that at midnight. Not only the other prisoners were listening, but there was an earthquake. The earthquake destroyed the prison and the prisoners were free all of a sudden.

Paul and Silas were singing because they had a song

King Jehoshaphat and his people and Paul and Silas  were singing because they had a song, they were also singing because they had an answer.

THE CROSS

“‘Stand up! What are you doing down on your face?

Joshua 7:10-12

Intr.:

Israel has sinned;

a.  they have violated my covenant, which I commanded them to keep.

b.  They have taken some of the devoted things;

c.  they have stolen,

d.  they have lied,

e.  they have put them with their own possessions.

End:

That is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies.'”

One of the most beautiful things for a retired person is to be without deadlines. – W. D.