Fly-fishing by J R Hartley

Who remembers this? I always did liek this advert and I was reminded of it today in church. It was a rather disturbed service for me. The little one didn't settle very well in the creche and I was in and out. The talk was on Psalm 100 which is a lovely passage in scripture. Here it is from the NIV Psalm 100 A psalm. For giving grateful praise. 1 Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. 2 Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. 3 Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his[a]; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. 5 For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations. Now, the talk was about how God gives us reasons to be thankful. I am sure it was an excellent talk but what struck me was a short passage about v3. It says that we belong to God because he made us. This was linked to a verse in 1 Corinthians chapter 6:20 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. This was the thought that this triggered in me (I actually just typed God triggered, perhaps it was). God made us but he lost us. He had to go and buy us back. It doesn't sound like much but this is what happened. He made something so great and so amazing, the pinnacle of his creative talents and then we went and moved away from him. He spent so long trying to find us and eventually he did and he had to buy us back. The price he paid was enormous but so worth it. Back to the video, this is a pale imitation but it is a sweet metaphor. The man in the clip won't give up and God won't either.