Tangled Line!


They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him. If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.
2 Peter 2:19-20

I am old enough to have gone fishing while using a fishing reel that was not “tangle proof.” You never know exactly how it happens, but you cast out the line and it abruptly stops because the fishing line is “tangled up” on the reel. So you must spend precious “fishing time” carefully tracing out the confused and frustrating mess of line before you can return to the joy of fishing! Some modern fishing reels are designed to minimize the possibility of becoming tangled.

Jesus Himself compared the work of His disciples to fishing. He told them that they would fish for men. I know that the early disciples did not use rods and reels to fish, but I believe the comparison is still valid. When you are fishing for men and you become entangled in the corruption of this world your ability to fish stops until you escape!

It is just like fishing for fish. I am having a fine day casting out into the water where the fish are waiting to be found when suddenly my line become tangled and fishing is over until the line is untangled.

So when you look at the corruption around you and you hear Satan tell you that “a little taste of the tree won’t hurt” then be warned that becoming entangled in the world will halt fishing for men!

Slaves of depravity cannot catch men for Jesus!