Every week the local freebie newspaper that’s full of ads arrives
in our mail. Around this time of year, several pages are devoted to
the promotion of hunting. This week’s advice to hunters targets the
importance of being quiet – sneaky, is more like it! – with an article
entitled “Quiet As Can Be.”
Something has to be really wrong with people who devote so much time
and money trying to trick God’s creatures so they can ambush and kill
them! Deception is not of God. Deception is of Satan. In essence,
hunters are actually demonstrating cowardice, sneakiness, hardness of
heart, et cetera – characteristics that are a far cry from the
attributes of those who are truly indwelt by the Holy Spirit. There is
something terribly wrong with a person who claims to be a born-again
Christian, but who refuses to question his or her addiction to killing.
Think for a moment about how weak a character a person must have who
cannot stop a destructive activity for any reason – social pressure from
friends or family, included!
Those who are truly led by God’s Holy Spirit are transformed, so that
their actions reflect a positive change. This is what the New Testament
teaches in Galatians 5:22-23:
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
~New American Standard Bible
Also visit:
About “Deception” –
http://www.all-creatures.org/heart/blog-20070428.html
About “Cowardly Submissive” –
http://www.all-creatures.org/heart/blog-20070122.html
About “Blaspheming the Holy Spirit” –
http://www.all-creatures.org/heart/blog-20060930.html
