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Sammy's Big Catch
Author: Unknown
Sammy was a good-looking young boy who lived in the deep south. His summer
days were filled with times of walking through the woods, playing with
friends, and fishing in the pond down the dirt road Fishing was by far his
favorite thing to do. Just about every day during his summer vacation, he
would dig up some worms and head off, pole in hand, for a day of fishing.
This steamy hot day was like most others during Sammy's summer break.
Waking early, he could hear the pond calling him to come fish. Sammy quietly
walked out the front door, grabbed his pitchfork and worm pail from the
porch, and walked into the woods to search for bait. He turned over old
stumps and dug under leaves hoping to find worms. Under one old stump he hit
the jackpot. The ground was writhing. In two minutes he had all the bait he
needed, and in 15 minutes he was at the pond.
Reaching into his bait bucket, Sammy pulled out a big worm. He double hooked
it and tossed it into the water. He noticed a stinging in his hand, but
filled with the excitement of the moment, he paid no attention to it.
Within 30 seconds, Sammy had a strike and pulled in a nice catfish.
Wow, he thought, a fish in the first minute. This is unbelievable!
He put the catch on his stringer, hurried to re-bait his hook, and tried his
luck again. Once again he felt a stinging sensation in his hand as he threw
his hook into the pond. He didn't have time to worry about it.
Within just a few seconds, he had another huge fish. He fumbled the next
time he baited his hook--his hand felt numb and stiff. But Sammy was too
excited about catching another fish to give it much thought.
At the end of only an hour of fishing, Sammy had caught eight large fish.
This was definitely his best fishing day ever. He was so proud of his
accomplishment that, even though there was plenty of day left to fish, he
threw the heavy stringer of fish over his shoulder and dashed down the dirt
road toward home to show off his catch to his mom and dad.
The local sheriff happened to drive up alongside Sammy and started to
congratulate him on his catch of fish. With a smile and a victory whoop,
Sammy held up the stringer. The sheriff gasped, parked his car and strode
over to Sammy.
His eyes hadn't deceived him--Sammy's arms really were red and swollen to
about twice their normal size. Exactly where have you been and what bait did
you use to catch all those fish?" the sheriff asked Sammy, already guessing
the answer.
I found some special bait under an old stump," Sammy boasted.
"These worms really wiggle good," he commented, handing up the bait bucket
for inspection. After a close look at the worms, the sheriff went into
fast-forward. Securing the bucket in his truck, he then scooped Sammy and
his stringer of fish into the back seat of his patrol car. Spinning a U-turn
on the gravel road, he sped off to the hospital, but Sammy was already dead.
What the sheriff had discovered was that Sammy had been fishing with baby
rattlesnakes. Sammy's deadly bait brought him a good morning's fishing but
cost him his life. Had Sammy stopped fishing after that first sting, he
could have been saved. One bite from a baby rattler won't kill a person who
gets treatment in time. But Sammy was having fun and didn't bother himself
with the small voice of pain in his hand. Then, as his hand grew numb, even
that small voice was silenced.
Playing around with sin is like using baby rattlesnakes for bait.
Sinning seems harmless to young people who don't recognize sin and are
unaware of its deadly consequences. The more sin you get into, however, the
more numb you become to its sting. In the excitement of the moment, you
ignore the still small voice of God warning you of danger and encouraging
you to choose life instead of death.
Edited from Still More <http://www.youthspecialties.com/mall/browse/#illus>
Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks by Wayne <mailto:wayne@uyt.com> Rice.
Copyright1999 by Youth <http://www.gospelcom.net/ys/> Specialties, Inc.
http://gci.gospelcom.net/dw/2000/07/31/
"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not
in us." -1 John 1:8
"As ons sê dat ons geen sonde het nie, mislei ons onsself en die waarheid is
nie in ons nie." -1 John 1:8
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