SALMON DETERMINATION
Regardless of the obstacles, salmon don't retreat. If we as people were determined in all our endeavors as a salmon is to spawn, we would also be more successful.
(Arctic Roadrunner)
Maybe that's why Jesus made us fishers of men!
I know, that was painful for me too!
God bless.
If we as people were determined in all our endeavors as a salmon is to spawn, we would also be more successful.
To be honest, looking back there are times when I wish I was less determined in some endeavors. I would have saved myself a few regrets. ;-)
MC
Compton wrote:
To be honest, looking back there are times when I wish I was less determined in some endeavors. I would have saved myself a few regrets. ;-)MC
I know a secular business wrote this proverb, however we need to be this way in our pursuit of God. Salmon will reach their goal or die trying.
Your'e absolutely right GoldMiner. I understood you meant being determined towards the things of God. I was just sighing out loud at the folly of being so determined over worldy and foolish things. A recent post here used the metaphor of children spending all their energy to roll up a big snow man only to see it melt away the next day! (Sadly I can relate!)
Blessings,
MC
Goldminer wrote:
SALMON DETERMINATIONRegardless of the obstacles, salmon don't retreat. If we as people were determined in all our endeavors as a salmon is to spawn, we would also be more successful.
(Arctic Roadrunner)
I have a tape with one song that begins:
[color=000099] Any Old Dead Fish Can Float Downstream With the Rest..."[/color]"
Its the life within us that drives us "upstream", not our own self-effort.
Jesus is our life. If HE is in us we will constantly seek the "upstream", because, like the salmon, we simply can't help it!
Again like the salmon, we may fail again and again, but our instinct is always towards the "upstream".
It's not the failures that matter so much as the "orientation" of our hearts - [i]especially
Surely that was why David was accepted by the Lord, but King Saul (whose sins, except at the end, were apparently less serious) was rejected. David, for all his faults, knew how to repent.
And he was called "a man after God's own heart"
Blessings
Jeannette
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