HOPE & STRENGTH

I love teaching Hunter Education because it is so humbling. Just when you think you’ve become a real expert on hunting, some 10-year-old kid teaches you that your not. God often does the same with us in everyday life.

How often do we take for granted our families as we trudge along comfortable with working each day, providing dinner each night and paying our bills as they demand. Day after day, week after week we get up and function through the basic routine. The problem occurs when one day you’re awoken to call from the cops, notifying you that your child just broke the law and you must pick them up from “Juvie.”

How painful is the sudden reality that you do not have perfect kids and you are not a perfect parent?

As we close this evening, I offer this verse of hope and strength:

“Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”      – Joshua 1:9

The Ten Commandments C4C Style

1. God is number one… and das’ All.

2. Don’t pray to nuttin’ or nobody… jus’ God.

3. Don’t cuss nobody… ‘specially da Good Lord.

4. When it be Sunday… pass yo’self by God’s House.

5. Yo mama an’ yo daddy dun did it all… lissen to dem.

6. Killin’ duck an’ fish, das’ OK… people – No!

7. God done give you a wife… sleep wit’ jus’ her.

8. Don’t take nobody’s boat… or nuttin’ else.

9. Don’t go wantin’ somebody’s stuff.

10. Stop lyin’… yo tongue gonna fall out yo mouf!

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Lance Cherry, a native of New Mexico, has worked several years in the outdoor industry, with New Mexico Department of Game and Fish and the New Mexico State Parks Division. Lance is a founder of Crosshairs for Christ, a Christian ministry with a desire to connect and change lives by spreading Christ’s message to sportsmen and outdoor enthusiasts through activity-based fellowship. For more information contact Lance Cherry, lance@crosshairsforchrist.org.