If You Were A Fish Would You Be A Keeper?

 by Paul D. Fisher       Nov. 30, 03

When you go fishing and you catch a fish, you have to determine whether or not that fish is a keeper. A keeper is a fish that is large enough to pass the state requirements as to kind and size. Sometimes the requirements are different when you are fishing in a lake or in a river or stream. Yet as a fisherman you are required to make judgment as to whether you have caught what the state considers to be a keeper or whether you must immediately release the fish back into the water.

In the parable of the net, found in Matthew 13:47,50 Jesus compared the judgment day to a fish net cast into the water and pulled out. Then, the fishermen would sit down and put the keepers into vessels and throw away the non-keepers. Jesus described the good fish as being just people (those who are faithful followers of God) and the wicked (as being those who are not faithful followers of God).

When you think about your life and compare it to what God calls a keeper, which group would you find yourself in? God has revealed to all who will read and study His word how to become keepers! In Hebrews 11, we find a list of some of those who God considers to be keepers. When you read that list you find out they were keepers because they were faithful to God and His word. Are you a keeper?

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