I have been blessed to see a few packs of wolves in the wild. I’ve  seen far more lone wolves than packs. Whether a lone wolf or a pack, I’ve always felt blessed to see them.

I’ve heard the songs of wolves in the wild far more often than I have seen them. Their songs never fail to give me goosebumps. Their songs, particularly if they are coming from different directions around your campfire, are both beautiful and unnerving.

Coyotes will also serenade at night. Their call is very different, and you would be highly unlikely to confuse the two, unless, perhaps, you had never heard a wolf pack.

Both wolves and coyotes can be problematic for farmers, as they are not adverse to preying on livestock.  That creates a sort of love-hate relationship between the animals and the farmers.

Wolves had been known to attack humans, but such attacks are extremely rare. There are fewer than 100 recorded attacks in North America since 1750.  Still, if you are interacting with them, caution is always advised.

Wolves are mentioned in the Bible, both the four-legged and two-legged varieties. We are warned against the two-legged variety.

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits. Matthew 7:15-20

Unfortunately, attacks by these wolves are not rare. Sometimes they can be found in your home church, striving to cut our little flocks for themselves. At other times, they can be the pastors or leaders of congregations.

They preach other gospels than the one Jesus taught. They twist the teachings of the Bible to benefit themselves. Sometimes they teach just enough truth that the flock doesn’t notice the poisonous errors.

Be on the lookout for them. Compare what you are being taught to the Bible and to the orthodox teachings the church has always held.

We are blessed to have easy access to the Word and to the great theologians of both yesterday and today. We have the Spirit to teach us how to discern truth from error.

Know what the truth is for yourself.

Hallelu Yah (Praise God)

Be blessed, 

Kevin

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Yesterday, Kathy and I took a little road trip. We visited the  Weaver Creek Spawning Channels and the Chehalis River Trout and Salmon Enhancement Facility. They were amazing.

The Weaver Creek facility has 3km of manmade spawning channels, beautifully laid out for walking and viewing. Three species of salmon, sockeye, chum, and pinks, come here by the thousands to spawn and die.

Every year, the salmon return to where they were born to spawn. No one yet understands how they know where to return.

The salmon’s lifecycle is a miracle in itself. They are born in freshwater gravel beds and eventually travel downriver (often as much as 150 miles) to live their lives in the ocean. When it’s time to spawn, they return upstream in freshwater, overcoming a wide variety of obstacles, including waterfalls, to their place of birth.

I found it impossible to stand there and watch the salmon without marveling at God’s incredible creative power and the beauty of what He has made.

God has placed knowledge of their home into their hearts. In the same way, He has put a knowledge of our home into our hearts.

In 1670, Blaise Pascal wrote, “What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words, by God himself.”

When the Apostle Paul addressed the learned philosophers at the Areopagus, he said this…

So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us. Acts 17:22-27

Only God can truly fill that void in our lives. Everything else will fail.

Praise God for the wonderful way in which we are made, and that He calls us to Him.

Hallelu Yah (Praise God)

Be blessed, 

Kevin

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