Thursday, January 12, 2017

Tying Flies

The only kind of fishing I do is fly fishing. I do it mainly in the streams of Montana.  I find it to be a time where I can enjoy the outdoors and relax. I look forward to these times. I also happen to make fly fishing flies, the simpler ones like prince and pheasant tail nymphs and dry flies like parachute adams, purple hazes and blue damsels.  These flies are to look like the real bugs and imitate their movements. They are not the real deal, but look like the real deal.  It's fun to make one and to catch a good size trout on one of them. When the trout bites it discover to late that they are "hooked".

This is the way of the world as well.  Jesus said that he wanted to make us fishers of men.  Guess what?  Satan is a fisher of men as well.  He uses "flies" to lure us to bite and before realizing it we are hooked. These flies of money, wealth, fame, power draw us and then destroy us if we are taken up with them.  We forget that the abundant life is not in things, but in Jesus. The world measures success in things and stresses to gain these things, which in the end leads really to nowhere.

So, what imitation flies have we been chasing?


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