SWIMMING UPSTREAM
Romans 12:2
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Fishing the Karluk River on Kodiak Island was amazing. I had one day where I had a pair of fishermen that were fly fishing and all day the fishing was so good that there was rarely a time when we didn't have a silver salmon on. The fish were coming upstream to spawn by the thousands. The only fish we saw coming downstream were dead ones, floating with the current.
Swimming upstream, against the current, Is the hardest way to go. But that is very much like what God has called us to do, as His people.
Our whole world is moving in one direction, morally and spiritually. They have one set of beliefs, one set of morals and one way of doing things; the way of the world. They believe that what everyone believes is the right way to do it; what we should all believe, and say, and do is the right way. But rarely does God want His people to do what everyone else is doing. He almost always wants us to "swim upstream," against the current, and do things differently, His way. Because it's only then that He gets glory from our life.
Like the salmon that were traveling with the current , those going along with the world and it's ungodly ways are all dead inside.
Be careful which way you're going in life. Swimming against the current is harder than floating downstream. But going upstream will make us stronger. Downstream brings death.
EPHESIANS 5:15-16
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
Go against the flow.
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