November 2, 2012
Today's Photograph . . . . Perhaps We Have Been Placed Here . . . (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.
