Outdoor Truths: Aiming Outdoorsmen Toward Christ May 2nd
Gary Miller ~ outdoortruths.org
This is not the first time that I dared challenge getting between the hens and the gobblers. I know if I can separate the two, the path for them to reunite runs through me. But there is a risk. It is one that many times I am unwilling to take. Most of the time, I prefer to rest on the side of caution, patience, and surety. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. One method, however, is not always the best, but I like getting close – real close. There is something about closeness. If you have ever witnessed the hot air coming from the nostrils of a wild animal on a cold day, you know what I mean. If you have ever been greeted by a coyote while you’re calling a turkey, you know what I mean. Closeness focuses the mind and the perspective. No longer is the image a panoramic one; it is now zoomed in on one particular subject. Everything else is mentally cropped from the picture. Sometimes God calls each one of us to do the same. His words to us are so gripping, yet so quiet, that it compels us to draw a little closer in order that we might hear more, and more clearly. At these times He is not satisfied with where we have been sitting. The view is too general – too encompassing. He wants to bring one thing to our attention and in order for Him to do that; we must be willing to draw a little closer. Are you willing to do that? Are you willing to close the distance? Are you willing to risk putting yourself in God’s path? The results might not be certain, but your success will be.
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