There is a group of guys that gets together on a regular basis to do some shooting. It’s called League of Light, and gives an opportunity to shoot various kinds of weapons. The gatherings give both a time for instruction and practice in shooting as well as practical applications to the Christian life.
To a person who has no experience in shooting, it’s amazing to learn how many factors impact an accurate shot. If you talk to an expert marksman, you will learn that they even learn to time their shot in between heart beats. Wind and gravity also affect the trajectory of a bullet. It’s not just point and shoot. There is a lot to it.
The most recent time at L.O.L. included instructions and practice in archery. After hearing all the directions, we took turns shooting at targets. Learning comes quickly as shooters come up either way short or send the arrow far beyond the target. With practice, we got better and were able to hit the target. We had to learn how to both shoot and aim.
I remember a crazy line from the Three Stooges, way back from my childhood. One of those very intelligent guys said:
I shoot an arrow in the air
Where it lands I do not care
I get my arrows wholesale.
As we did our shooting at League of Light, we were careful to retrieve our arrows. I guess we didn’t get them wholesale.
A question for you to chew on: Where are you aiming in life? In your daily life, where are you headed? What are you doing with your life and where are you going with it? Where is life taking you? It does no good to only have good intentions, you have to be going down the right road.
In my life, I have been all over the country and a few other nations. More than once, because of not knowing the area, we went down a wrong road and went to completely different place than we intended to go. We meant well, but we were lost. Our aim was off. But, when we traveled with a local person, we got where we were headed.
Your life is so valuable. You are not “wholesale”, but in God’s eyes, your life is full retail value. You can’t waste life, it is the only one God gives you. You can’t aimlessly wander and just do whatever comes along. God has a plan for each of us, we need to find it and follow it.
Just a few words here today to ask you the question: Where Are You Aiming? Think about it.
