{"id":1819,"date":"2015-10-18T08:20:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T08:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2015-10-18T08:20:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T08:20:57","slug":"lessons-from-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=1819","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from Fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"12f\"<\/a>\u00a0 We sometimes go fishing. It\u2019s a wonderfully relaxing pastime unless there are no fish around in which case one can feel rather frustrated. However, if it is a nice day, just being on the water is relaxation in itself.<\/p>\n

When the fish are biting well, and one or two come into the boat, all the trouble seems worthwhile. That reminds us that nothing worthwhile in life just happens without some effort. Nothing tried is nothing gained just as in other phases of life.<\/p>\n

Sometimes only undersized fish get caught. This is when one has to just throw them back to grow some more We have to be honest in this and not keep them. If one is caught by the inspector, a\u00a0 heavy fine and sometimes even the confiscation of the boat.<\/p>\n

Other times, a big one might get on and be brought right up to the side of the boat, only to have it give a final flick of the head\u00a0 and get away. At times like this it doesn\u2019t seem fair\u2026..after all that effort to have it get away! That reminds us that life isn\u2019t always fair. At times it is grossly unfair. But this is how we learn to cope with disappointments\u2026..things won’t always go our way!<\/p>\n

Another lesson to learn is to kill the fish immediately they are brought into the boat. It is not fair to let creatures suffer unnecessarily, and to die of\u00a0 slow suffocation is anything but kind.<\/p>\n

Learning to cast with the rod doesn\u2019t just come naturally. As with most things, there is a certain knack to learn to get the line far enough out. The same principle applies here as with other things\u2026.practice makes perfect! If at first you don’t succeed, try again as the old saying goes.<\/p>\n

Last but not least, is that time spent with family or friends is never time wasted. Let\u2019s make sure we take the time to enjoy the things that God has given us to freely enjoy. It would be sad indeed to have to face Him one day and hear Him say, \u201c I\u00a0 made all that beauty for you to experience, and you never took the time to enjoy it!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 We sometimes go fishing. It\u2019s a wonderfully relaxing pastime unless there are no fish around in which case one can feel rather frustrated. However, if it is a nice day, just being on the water is relaxation in itself. When the fish are biting well, and one or two come into the boat, all … Continue reading Lessons from Fishing<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotionals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p69z0J-tl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1821,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions\/1821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}