Wednesday, August 31, 2022

KEEP THROWING THAT LINE!

 

KEEP THROWING THAT LINE!

 

I am NOT

Much of a fisherman=

Never liked it much

Not even as a kid=in fact

I hate it!

 

But I do like

FISHING FOR PEOPLE=

I do like=helping them

FIND THEIR GOD POTENTIAL=

So if you are like me

And love=fishing for people

 

KEEP THROWING THAT LINE!

Keep on

Fishing for God=IN OTHERS

 

“Master=we have worked hard

All night

And have caught NOTHING

 

But at your command-

I will lower the nets”                                                                                                        Luke 5:5

 

Peter seems resigned

And discouraged=maybe

That is why

 

He takes FISHING ADVICE

From a PREACHER=he just met

 

I don’t know about you

But I get REAL DISCOURAGED

When things

Are NOT going my way

 

But I have SOME ADVICE

For you

DRAW CLOSER TO God=and

 

KEEP THROWING THAT LINE!

Trust in our God=and Jesus

 

“Come follow me’=Jesus said

‘And I will send you out

To FISH FOR PEOPLE’”                                                                                                                       Mark 1:17

 

“Then Jesus said to Simon=

‘Don’t be afraid=from now on

You will=FISH FOR PEOPLE’”                                                                                                 Luke 5:10

 

KEEP THROWING THAT LINE!

For people=FISH for people

In God and Christ Jesus

Trust in God!

 

No matter

How BLEAK things may look

Our God

CAN TURN=any situation around

 

He can BRING JOY=from pain

HOPE=from despair

And even LIFE=from death

He has=DONE all of that

FOR ME

 

It is easy

To take life for GRANTED

When we=are MAKING catch after catch

 

But we all go through

The dark times

When our nets=are COMING BACK EMPTY

 

KEEP THROWING THAT LINE!

For God and Jesus=you never know

WHEN you will have a CATCH=like Jesus

Trust in God

 

“Therefore since we are surrounded

By such a great cloud

Of witnesses

 

Let us THROW off everything

That hinders=and the sin that

So easily entangles

 

And let us run=WITH PERSEVERANCE

The race marked for us”                                                                                                                 Hebrews 12:1

 

Dear Lord=we pray

That when we are DISCOURAGED like Peter was=

Let us TRUST in you=and

KEEP THROWING THAT LINE!

 

In Jesus’ name=and in the name=of our EVER HOPEFUL Holy Father God!

 

Robert P. Wallman

8-31-2022

 

 

Ps        INSPIRED by an=ARTICLE in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE=by Karla Manternach

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