Hold On To What You Believe

WHAT MATTERS

3/30/31

Dr. C. Branker.

When you believe something is possible, do not relent because of the faithlessness of others.

I met a young man who had planned his wedding day with his fiancée. Two days before the wedding, the caterers called him and broke the sad news that the island did not received the weekly supply of beef, chicken and pork due to a break down of the delivery boat.

The couple was devastated because there would be no food at the reception, especially since they live on a small island.

The following day, the groom got a couple of his friends together, borrowed a fishing boat, and set out to sea.

After several hours, they caught nothing and his friends were packing up to head back to shore. 

He pleaded with them, but their mind was made up to call it quits after a long day catching nothing.

He dropped one final line over the side of the boat, and before it sank, he got a three pound snapper. He quickly got it into the boat and threw the line out again only to catch another one, and another.

His friends noticed there was a school of snappers circling the boat waiting for more bait (food). 

He told me, his wedding, was the only wedding on the island that served whole snappers to all the guest.

He also told me, they couldn't bait their lines fast enough as there were so many snappers around the boat.

His hands were all cut up from the nylon lines used instead of fishing rods.

A week later, he went back to the same spot in the ocean, but there was no snappers.

Believe and Wait with Expectancy.

DCB