January 31, 2012
Today's Photograph . . . . Whitetail Buck (MQ) |
Esther 4:13-14
And Mordecai told them to answer Esther: "Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king's palace any more than all the other Jews. For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" (NKJV)
Thoughts
It had been a long season. It was twenty degrees on a December Saturday morning and I really didn't feel like getting up this early and driving the hour to my deer lease in order to be there by daylight. But an empty buck tag and a good stand site won me over. I rolled out of bed and bundled up.
At 9:30 that same morning, I was standing over a massive nine point buck. Opportunity had knocked and I had answered.
(Brian H)
Action Point
In spiritual terms we're very good at seeing opportunities, but how good are we at seizing them? More times than not, we see an opportunity and we tell other people about it in hopes that they will seize that opportunity. How tragic that we're so willing to pass off God's blessing to someone else!!!
You see, God is in the business of bringing people and circumstances into our lives with a purpose for us to fulfill. When we decide that we're not going to seize an opportunity that God has put in front of us, then He will allow someone else to accomplish His will and will bless them instead!!!
You know that thing that you've been worrying over or fretting about? Yeah, that thing. God wants you to see that as an opportunity to do something for Him. You've been put right here for such a time as this. Look at life differently from here on. SEE opportunities around you and SEIZE them!!! Perhaps we have been placed here "for such a time as this."
Sportsmen's Tip of the Day
Winter and early Spring is a great time to inventory your hunting and fishing equipment, fix broken equipment, or cull it if it's not fixable. Mend holes in torn clothes, refletch arrows, clean firearms, brace up deer stands, clean out the tackle box.....in a word.....seize the opportunity to do some clean up and organization.
