NO doubt some of my readers have gone out with the fishermen at night, and such know how they do. They sail away out into deep water, and after the sun is set they let out their lines, and at other times they put out nets.
When they put out lines, they start with a large cork and a pole on it with a flag and then they sail away slowly letting out a line attached to that cork, and then when they have let all their line out they put out another large cork attached to the other end, and go off and leave it for a while, and as dawn comes in the morning. they begin to pull it in, and take the fish off the hooks.
The fish do not notice the hooks, they only notice the bait. and so they are caught. So with nets, they get their heads through and cannot pull back.
This is a good illustration of how Satan does with us. He spreads his nets to catch us into something that is wrong but if we walk according to the light of God’s Word, we shall not be caught, for that Word will show us God’s path, and give us true wisdom, and wisdom’s ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
Let us take heed to God’s Word, and learn from it what is true wisdom. Let us begin by taking Christ as our Saviour, and then seek to please Him in all our ways. Without this we shall be sure to be caught in Satan’s nets, and prove the foolishness of our hearts.
ML 09/10/1922