So if any of
you are from Wisconsin then you will know that last week was a very important
week in the life of us Cheese Heads. I’m
not talking about Thanksgiving and the gluttonous amount of food that we eat. And I’m
not talking about the three Packers games that were played since the 17th. What I’m talking about is the nine day long
season that has most Wisconsinites pressing pause on life. Well if you haven’t figured out what I am talking about then I’ll
just tell you. What I’m talking about is
Whitetail deer hunting. Yep! These wild
creatures have many men and woman in Wisconsin(myself included) running to the
woods for nine days to spend countless hours sitting, just waiting for the chance to
shoot this animal. My reasoning is for
the adrenaline rush that comes from the hunt.
Others have their reasons too.
Some hunt for food, for sport, or just for the pure joy of spending time
in the woods. Whatever it is that
attracts us to this sport it has control on a lot of people’s lives for a week. Good honest people that hate getting up
before 5AM are forced into rising before the sun is up to go sit out in the
cold of November to wait for hours on end just to shoot an animal. Yeah, it’s crazy :p
So in my many hours of pondering while I was
out in the woods last week I had a thought: what if we put the passion that we
do into hunting for deer into hunting for Jesus? I think God gave me this thought and once it
popped into my mind I too was like, ‘’Wow!’’
It’s a valid question. So much
time, energy, and money is invested into hunting and nine days of people’s
lives go on hold while they’re hunting for deer. What if we took out nine days of our lives to
go hunting for Jesus? I think the end
result would be life changing. There’s
nothing wrong with hunting at all. I was
just thinking how the world could be impacted if our zeal for hunting would be
changed into zeal for Christ.
This is
going to be a short post, but this is the thought I had. I’m not here to convict anyone or say you
shouldn’t hunt. I was just given the thought
and the challenge that I should be investing my energy as a soldier of the
Cross into hunting for Jesus.
