Cold and blustery. Hardly anyone at Lake Ray Roberts. Five dollars for worms. Hooks snag in the underwater weeds. Worm guts under the fingernails.
Fish won’t bite. A hook pierces my thumb.
“Daddy, a stocked pond might be more fun,” I heard over my shoulder.
We fished with worms, hooks, and bobs while a nearby man cast a fishing lure with his rod. As we were leaving, this man caught a bass!
We caught nothing. Go figure. But his success got me to thinking.
I looked up the term “lure” in the Oxford American Dictionary and found the word “tempt” occurring in the definitions. The probable origin of the word “lure” stemmed from the German term, Luder, meaning, “bait.” Hmmm . . .
The next morning I asked the family, “What does fishing teach us about Jesus’ statement: ‘I will make you fishers of men?’” Various answers shot back:
Then we discussed another question: “What does fishing teach us about how Satan tempts us?”
The lessons we caught from fishing were keepers. Here are two:
Not bad for five bucks.
Can you think of some other lessons fishing can teach us? Please leave your comment.