"When the Spirit of truth comes, he will
guide you into all truth..." John 16:13a
Proverbs 22:6
• Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.
• Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.
2 Timothy 3:15
• You have been taught the holy Scriptures from childhood, and they have given you the wisdom to receive the salvation that comes by trustng in Christ Jesus.
• You have been taught the holy Scriptures from childhood, and they have given you the wisdom to receive the salvation that comes by trustng in Christ Jesus.
Here’s how it happened. While riding on a ferryboat
to Galiano Island in British Columbia, I struck up a
conversation with Mr. Thompson, a dignified and
friendly gentleman who served as the Chief Clerk for
the City of Vancouver.
I said, ‘I’ve heard that after a salmon is spawned, it
will swim out into the ocean, and that after an
extended time something happens inside the brain of
the salmon, and it will then have the overwhelming
urge to return to the place where it was spawned.
The salmon will swim along the coast, find the right
harbor, the right river, the right stream; and finally
it will get back to the very spot where it started out.
How in the world does the salmon do all that?’ I
added, hoping it would taken as a joke, ‘After all,
the salmon is underwater all the way, and it has no
periscope.’
Mr. Thompson chuckled, thought a bit, then replied,
‘Yes, that is true, but it is even more remarkable than
that. An experiment was recently carried out in which
salmon eggs were removed from the stream where
they had been laid and were put into another stream
some distance away.’
Thompson then added with a questioning grin, ‘When
the salmon grows up and swims out to the ocean and
finally swims back home, which location will it swim
to? Will it swim to the place where the eggs were
laid–or to the place where they had been moved to?’
I paused for a moment, then I gave what I thought was
the only sensible answer, ‘The salmon will swim back
to the place where the eggs had been transported, of
course. That’s where the salmon actually turned into a
fish and got to know its environment.’
‘Wrong!’ said Mr. Thompson. ‘The salmon will
swim back to the original place where the eggs
were laid.’
I was amazed then, and I still am, by the uncanny built- in guidance system of the salmon.
I was amazed then, and I still am, by the uncanny built- in guidance system of the salmon.
What a sermon on the guidance of God! If God
provides such a marvelous guidance for a fish,
there is certainly nothing fishy about believing
that He can provide guidance for us.
We are far more important to God than any fish. We are created in God’s own image.
We are far more important to God than any fish. We are created in God’s own image.
God only knows how much we need His wise
and loving guidance as we try to find our way
through the jungle of ‘this world.’ And, thank
God, He has personally promised His guidance.”
Psalm 119:98 says
"Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are my constant guide."
Psalm 119:98 says
"Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are my constant guide."
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