{"id":6116,"date":"2023-06-26T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6116"},"modified":"2023-06-22T08:28:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T14:28:30","slug":"fishing-for-the-hungry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6116","title":{"rendered":"Fishing for the hungry – 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I want to continue yesterday’s meditation on fishing for the hungry<\/a>. A member of Auburn University’s National Championship Bass Fishing Team said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everybody\u2019s like, \u201cYou go out, sit down and throw a bobber out there.\u201d I\u2019m running 50 to 100 places every tournament. I don\u2019t like to sit and wait for them to feed, I like to fish for fish that are feeding.<\/em> – Tucker Smith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s a promise and a challenge for helping the hungry:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if you offer your soul to the hungry and satisfy the soul of the afflicted, then your light will rise in darkness and your thick darkness will become like midday. And Yahweh will continually guide you, and satisfy your soul in scorched places, and fortify your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail. (Isaiah 58.10, 11, LSB)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Offer your soul to the hungry\u2026 How many sermons are delivered to the non-hungry? How can we make them hungry? Or how can we find the ones who are already hungry?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was an interesting series on fishing last week in the comic strip\u00a0Zits<\/a>. Dad says, \u201cWe\u2019re going fishing, leaving at 4am.\u201d The next morning, the dad is up and ready to go at 4am, and the kid is up\u2026because he hadn\u2019t gone to bed yet! Then the kid says, \u201cLook, Dad, there\u2019s is zero chance of me going fishing with you at 4am.\u201d And Dad replies, \u201cOK. Just help me load this box of fresh donuts into the car.\u201d The next frame, they\u2019re driving down the road with the kid eating the donuts, and Dad thinks, \u201cFishing is all about using the right bait.\u201d The kid wasn\u2019t hungry to go fishing, but he was hungry for donuts!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are similar to the lessons I listed in Fly-fishing and Disciple-making<\/a>. Fishing for the hungry is something I think we need to figure out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They say, \u201cYou can lead a horse to water, but you can\u2019t make him drink.\u201d But you can put salt in his oats!<\/em> \u2013 Dr. Howard Hendricks<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people\u2019s feet. You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 5.13 \u2013 16, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I want to continue yesterday’s meditation on fishing for the hungry. A member of Auburn University’s National Championship Bass Fishing Team said: Everybody\u2019s like, \u201cYou go out, sit down and throw a bobber out there.\u201d I\u2019m running 50 to 100 places every tournament. I don\u2019t like to sit and wait for them to feed, I … Continue reading Fishing for the hungry – 2<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1AE","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6117,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6116\/revisions\/6117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}