Filmed another installment of Pan Fish Wednesday (I know it’s really Tuesday) today and met a very nice young boy and his father out fishing. They were visiting from Colorado. The boy asked if I had a YouTube channel because he saw the camera equipment. A short time later the boy reeled in his first ever bass and I had the privilege of filming the exciting event. That video will come out possibly next week or the week after. It was neat to see a father and son out fishing together: way to go Dad! I believe it is becoming a thing of the past. The father and I were standing next to one another fishing when I suddenly caught a crappie. The father remarked to me that we only see what is on the surface, because that fish seemingly came out of nowhere. That statement got me to thinking about the Apostle Paul and as I am writing this post, King David came to mind. We see only what is on the surface (the exterior) of a person and not what they are really like. Paul was not a good speaker (I Corinthians 2:1-4). If Paul was in some of our churches today he would probably be laughed out of the pulpit. And yet God used him to write the majority of the New Testament and to bring more people to a saving knowledge of Jesus than anyone else outside of Christ Himself. When Samuel came to anoint the new king at Jesse’s house (Samuel 16), he thought sure that it had to be one on David’s brothers because they physically looked the part. And yet God chose young David, the smallest of them all, because David was “a man after mine own heart” (Acts 13:22). So the next time that we are out fishing and we are trying to “read the water” to see what kind of lure or bait to use, remember we can’t always see below the surface. Or when we meet someone and we make a snap judgement call of that person, remember we can’t see below the surface and that there may be a Paul or a David in that person. “But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because the LORD seeth not as a man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7)
