Ok so inspiration comes to me at the most random times and usually after 1AM. I was sitting here reading Approval Addiction By Joyce Meyer–which I will later be blogging on but I am only in chapter two, its one of those books you have to read the paragraph over and over till you get it!–but I was thinking about my beach day on Saturday and something I saw that inspired this blog.
As my cousin and I were swimming in the beautiful clear ocean we realized we were suddenly accompanied by some young “fishers”. Two little boys had their goggles on and were continuously diving in at any sight of the small fish swimming near us. Now my first thought was why do they keep trying they are never going to catch it. This in and of itself could be used as an analogy, childlike faith, but I want to further expand it…So I’m driving home from another beach day and those little boys just happen to come to mind yet again. So this time I was thinking, ok they keep trying to grab the fish with their bare hands, I being older than these young fishers know that is unreasonable and think why do they even try. I think, they have no chance of catching these fish in the ocean with their bare hands and besides, don’t they know its so much easier to go to the pet store and buy one?! Right then it hit me!
Why do we chase after the things of this world when what we are searching for; love, acceptance, happiness–is never going to be found. We will never catch the fishies with our bare hands! Am I such a child that I don’t understand that I can’t do this on my own? If I would only go to the pet shop there is all the fishies I could ever want! Do you see where I am going with this?
You may search high and low and try everything there is possible to make you happy here on the earth but the only way that will happen is if you go to God. Only He can truly satisfy us. Any other satisfaction is bound to slip away. Just like the little fish I keep chasing, thinking ONE DAY if I do this right, if I make new friends, once I go to college, if I could just be happier-life would be better, maybe I’ll catch the fish. And no matter how many times people tell me that happiness is not attainable on my own it takes something like this to show me. I am absolutely not saying that I will immediately stop chasing the things of this world because let’s be honest, its not easy running to God for satisfaction. But what I am saying is that I do realize that nothing on the earth will satisfy me other than Jesus Himself! So stop chasing the fishies and just go to the pet store, the fishy supply is abundant!
I know it may be a random thought or even a weird analogy but that is how my brain thinks and it just all came together so I thought maybe I’d write it down and see if it made sense to anyone else 
Great stuff! It should be so easy, right? Why don’t I just go to the pet store….. That’s a great measure of the maturity of our faith.