So, I caught a Bluefish and thought I would keep it as a pet, but it died on the ride home. Shame too, I carefully buckled it into the backseat to keep it safe.
Then I caught a Flounder a few days later, so I thought I had a new pet. Yep, you guessed it; he flat out died too, and the Croaker croaked.
The same thing happened with a Speckled Sea Trout, a Spot, a Hogfish, a Puppy Drum, Finger Mullets, Jumping Mullets, Shiners (which died before I got them to the car), a Ray and a Skate.
I don't understand it. They were all healthy and splashing around when I caught them.
Someone said it sounded a lot like "fish out of water syndrome."
I asked what that meant and they said that fish don't live in the same environment that humans do. They even said that it would be like me trying to live underwater, like a fish.
How silly is that? Of course I could not live underwater. I would drown.
POINT...
We live in the realm that agrees with our nature.
This is why sinners can't live like saints and saints can't live like sinners.
The sinner must be miraculously transformed in order to live in the spiritual realm and a believer will die spiritually if he chooses to live in the realm of sin.
This is why Jesus said, "You must be born again (born of the Spirit)." In order to live the spiritual life, a person must be a spiritual person. Sinners trying to live as saints is, "like a fish out of water." And we know how that turns out.
Come to think of it, this is not only a silly story, this is an incredibly sad story, because people try to live as Christians without receiving the nature of God.
2 Peter 1:4
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
PASSAGE...
These verses are awesomely wonderful for the person who abandons self and embraces God fully, but they are foolishness to the person who refuses to surrender fully to Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:9-16
(9) But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
(10) But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
(11) For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
(12) Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
(13) Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
(14) But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
(15) But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
(16) For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
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