{"id":3134,"date":"2026-07-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:48:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:48:40","slug":"you-can-always-go-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/?p=3134","title":{"rendered":"You Can Always Go Fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

John 9:4 \u201cI must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.\u201d \u00a0
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I\u2019ve never been a fishing kind of person. \u00a0I\u2019m not patient enough, and I have other hobbies I enjoy far more. \u00a0My dad was a single parent, so he was ok that I didn\u2019t want to go fishing all the time. \u00a0Even though I don\u2019t go fishing often, I know quite a few people who are very good at fishing. I see them post the big catfish they caught, or them sitting on their boat at a tournament. \u00a0After a long week or a tough Sunday, I wish I could be out there with them! \u00a0I push those thoughts aside, because I know this: You can always go fishing.

Some day, there will be no more opportunities to serve the Lord here on this Earth. Whether we pass off the scene or Christ comes again, there is a night when no man can work. \u00a0No more soul-winning. \u00a0No more sermons to prepare. \u00a0No more music practices. \u00a0No more bus maintenance. \u00a0No more hospital visits to make. \u00a0No more work. \u00a0Jesus stoked a fire after he had risen, and he called out to the backslidden disciples who were out fishing. \u00a0When they came to shore, Christ had already put fish on the fire. \u00a0Jesus shows his disciples that he could still go fishing, but his ministry on earth was over and past.

Make sure, as you schedule your life, that you include some fishing. \u00a0Some downtime that restores your soul or clears your mind isn\u2019t sinful. \u00a0Just keep in mind that someday will come when the work that we get weary of doing will no longer be there. \u00a0The teens who we prepare lessons for every week will no longer need to be served. \u00a0Let us determine that we spend our time here on Earth wisely, working for the Lord, before we can no longer.

Matthew 4:19\u00a0And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
You know what I\u2019ve learned talking to people who like to fish? \u00a0You can always go fishing. \u00a0It doesn\u2019t matter what time of year it is, or where you\u2019re at in the world. \u00a0There are always fish willing to bite if you know what you\u2019re doing. \u00a0People in the Great Lakes area will drive their trucks out on the frozen lakes to go ice fishing. \u00a0They are so dedicated that they have a whole set of tools for fishing in the cold weather. \u00a0Raining? No problem. \u00a0Hot, hot, hot? \u00a0No problem. \u00a0 What if you live in Florida? \u00a0There is fishing there. \u00a0What about up in Alaska? \u00a0There is fishing there, too! Every day of the year is fair game for people who fish.

As a Youth Pastor, I\u2019ve learned firsthand that any day is a good day to go fishing. \u00a0I\u2019ve knocked two blocks of a street in the snow, and the Lord gave our church visitors. \u00a0I\u2019ve been in nice neighborhoods, bad neighborhoods, places I thought were too far away, places that were right next door, nursing homes, bus stations, hospitals, and any place you could think about going! \u00a0Everywhere I went, the Lord showed me that you can make contacts any day or any place. \u00a0 Are you taking advantage of the good weather outside? \u00a0It\u2019s a perfect day to do some fishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jesse McCammon | Pastor
Flora Calvary Baptist Church | Flora, Illinois
www.floracalvarybaptist.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John 9:4 \u201cI must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0I\u2019ve never been a fishing kind of person. \u00a0I\u2019m not patient enough, and I have other hobbies I enjoy far more. \u00a0My dad was a single parent, so he was ok […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"no-sidebar-narrow","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"float","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"0","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_food_recipe":[],"enable_food_recipe":"0","food_recipe_title":"","food_recipe_description":"","food_recipe_serve":"","food_recipe_time":"","food_recipe_prep":"","food_recipe_level":"","food_recipe_keywords":"","food_recipe_category":"","food_recipe_cuisine":"","food_recipe_yield":"","food_recipe_calories":"","enable_print_recipe":"0","ingredient":[{"item":""}],"instruction":"","jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"jnews_podcast_option":{"enable_podcast":"0","podcast_duration":"","upload":""},"jnews_podcast_series":null,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[113,685,683,467,686,263,317],"jnews-series":[],"class_list":["post-3134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4-the-yp","tag-always","tag-contacts","tag-fishing","tag-jesse-mccammon","tag-serve","tag-soulwinning","tag-yplife"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/you-can-always-go-fishing-1024x768.jpg","blog_images":{"medium":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/you-can-always-go-fishing-300x225.jpg","large":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/you-can-always-go-fishing-1024x768.jpg"},"ams_acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5574,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions\/5574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"jnews-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fjnews-series&post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}