Outdoor Truths: Aiming Outdoorsmen Toward Christ April 25th
Gary Miller ~ outdoortruths.org
Just the other day, while turkey hunting, I saw the signs of one of those big cats and wondered if I was being watched. It was disconcerting and downright eerie. My area is home to the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. There are over 20,000 acres of mostly mountains. Those mountains are home to all sorts of critters. Bears sightings are fairly common now, along with those cats. And even though the deer and turkey are flourishing, so are these other animals. While snakes used to be my only fear, now I have “lions and tigers and bears”…. Oh my! Well, maybe not lions and tigers. But bears and wildcats and rattlesnakes are enough to make me walk through the woods in the dark, lit up like a Christmas tree, while singing Victory in Jesus to the top of my lungs. I can imagine me easing through the woods, half scared to death, and then all of a sudden a hoot owl cries out just above my head……….. I’d jump through my skin, fly up a tree, and gobble like a sick jake! That is living the life of the unexpected. That is getting what you didn’t ask for. That is life in the great outdoors. That’s not, however, how it has to be concerning eternity. We don’t have to wonder. We don’t have to live in fear. And we don’t have to live simply hoping that we will get what we ask for. The Bible is clear that, he who has the Son, has life. It’s a sure thing.
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