Chasing the Wind
Carolyn McCardell
In Greyhound racing I wondered how they got the dogs to start running at the same time. I found out that the dogs are trained to chase a lure (traditionally an artificial hare or rabbit. Although there is a winner in the race, the thing they were chasing is never obtained.
When I thought about this it reminded me how we as Children of God chase after things that are artificial. The word lure means an inducement to pleasure or gain, enticement, appeal, or attraction. Sometimes the enemy puts a lure right in front of us as a distraction for or a derailment of our purpose. Sometimes we create our own lures based on our fleshly desires. It is important in our walk that we recognize the distractions in our lives and how to discern what is from God, what is from the enemy, and what is from our own flesh.
The meaning of artificial is something humanly contrived often a natural model, man-made. If we are not living for Christ then we are living for the world, which means we are chasing after artificial things.
Living for the world is much like the dogs in the race chasing the lure, except the dogs never obtains the lure. Sometimes we win the lure that we chase so hard after only to later discover that it is only artificial. For a time what’s artificial might seem to sustain the flesh, but in the end we are left emptier than when we began the race because in chasing after the lure we ran even further away from God.
In 1 John 2:15–17 it says: “Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.” Our purpose in this World is to glorify God and be the light in the dark. We can not glorify God by chasing after our own fleshly desires. Whatever it is that you are chasing let it be the ‘real McCoy’ (from God). We don’t want to get to the end of our race (lives) to find that what we have been chasing was artificial. To sum it all up I will leave you with a quote from Ecclesiastes 2:11, “Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, as chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.”
In case you have been chasing after lures in your life remember this, in greyhound racing is most of the greyhounds eventually end up being adopted!! How wonderful is that after chasing after nothing and gaining nothing we are still able to be adopted by God!!
How do you know if you are chasing after a lures? This question can be answered easily. If it is not from God then it is from the world.
God Bless
Carolyn McCardell
In Greyhound racing I wondered how they got the dogs to start running at the same time. I found out that the dogs are trained to chase a lure (traditionally an artificial hare or rabbit. Although there is a winner in the race, the thing they were chasing is never obtained.
When I thought about this it reminded me how we as Children of God chase after things that are artificial. The word lure means an inducement to pleasure or gain, enticement, appeal, or attraction. Sometimes the enemy puts a lure right in front of us as a distraction for or a derailment of our purpose. Sometimes we create our own lures based on our fleshly desires. It is important in our walk that we recognize the distractions in our lives and how to discern what is from God, what is from the enemy, and what is from our own flesh.
The meaning of artificial is something humanly contrived often a natural model, man-made. If we are not living for Christ then we are living for the world, which means we are chasing after artificial things.
Living for the world is much like the dogs in the race chasing the lure, except the dogs never obtains the lure. Sometimes we win the lure that we chase so hard after only to later discover that it is only artificial. For a time what’s artificial might seem to sustain the flesh, but in the end we are left emptier than when we began the race because in chasing after the lure we ran even further away from God.
In 1 John 2:15–17 it says: “Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.” Our purpose in this World is to glorify God and be the light in the dark. We can not glorify God by chasing after our own fleshly desires. Whatever it is that you are chasing let it be the ‘real McCoy’ (from God). We don’t want to get to the end of our race (lives) to find that what we have been chasing was artificial. To sum it all up I will leave you with a quote from Ecclesiastes 2:11, “Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, as chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.”
In case you have been chasing after lures in your life remember this, in greyhound racing is most of the greyhounds eventually end up being adopted!! How wonderful is that after chasing after nothing and gaining nothing we are still able to be adopted by God!!
How do you know if you are chasing after a lures? This question can be answered easily. If it is not from God then it is from the world.
God Bless
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