“Fly Fishing” [Module #52B] (John 6:28-30)
Sometimes what people ask of us does not reflect their stance
In life – they’d rather silent be in any circumstance,
About themselves, and how they grow as garden in the sun –
“Keep focus on the other guy, and half the battle’s won!”So they spend time on who you are, not if you speak the truth –
“You come from God?” They ask of us, “then show some sign of proof”;
The trouble is God’s smarter than those folks have figured out,
For He’s fly-fishing in their pond and they are target trout.God is not proud, for He will use ’bout anything at hand,
To slip into our hearts and minds that we might understand,
That life as lived here on the globe is down-side-up indeed,
And we are heading for a cliff – and proud we are of speed.Fly-fishing flicks the hook above the water of the pool,
’Till fish jumps up and grabs the bait and thinks the fly looks cool;
S/he takes off down the stream with it as fisher lays out line,
Until s/he stops and spits it out – it’s “time to have a sign”.The fish will either swim away or swallow it for real,
And if s/he does, the fisher “sets the hook”, begins to reel
The tired fish, then nets it – that’s what God does through our work;
For in the end he wants us to stop acting like a jerk.So in this scene they’ve spit Him out as we do in our faith;
They’re asking for some sign from Christ before they Savior take;
He just sits there – “You choose”, He says, “I am the bread of life;
Like manna in the wilderness – take, eat, you’ll be all right”.It’s after that, the fun begins as we draw close to Him;
We fight and thrash upon the line which He starts reeling in;
We can’t escape maturity – once taste we have of heaven;
We sense in Christ diagonal; in us it acts like leaven.For soon it permeates our lives, creeps into corners there,
Affecting all we see and do, with aspects of His care;
And then it spreads to folks around – fly fishing in the pool,
’Till friends and neighbors take the bait who think the fly is cool.Thanks Lord, for this.
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