“O sons of men, how long will my honor become a reproach? How long will you love what is worthless and aim at deception?” Psalm 4:2 NASB

At my shooting lesson yesterday I was surprised when Super Instructor Dan put up a LARGE target with the entire center cut out of it. When he saw my surprise he said, “today we are going to aim at nothin’!” It was a totally new approach and a different way of thinking. I remember thinking, well how easy is it to hit NOTHIN’!?” Turns out it’s harder than it looks.

I’m used to lining up on a target and focusing on hitting my goal. It was unnerving to line up the sight on nothing! You’d think aiming at a big hole of the stuff would be easy. Until I brought the target in and saw I had hit the paper 9 times out of 50! The NATURAL question might be, well how far away WAS the target? Turns out ‘NOTHIN’ is a LOT closer than I thought!

I am living at the most frustrating age I have ever lived. Don’t get me wrong, I have had harder TIMES than this, but through it all, God and Country have been the stabilizers in my life when everything else goes wacky or fuzzy. These days, being anti-Christian and anti-American seems to be the norm. And I can’t help but think that this ‘hitting nothin’ is completely on purpose!

Being ANY kind of dedicated teacher these days is HARD. Even my wife, the best ‘little kid’ teacher in the world, comes home with stories of how parents out there are just not getting it! We are losing our children, and thus FURTHER generations, because we have allowed OTHER things to come before our own children’s education. I can tell you, God isn’t happy about it!

Am I REALLY dedicated to Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior? He SAID that HE was the ONLY way, Truth and Life…then laid out seeds of promise “if I follow (or aim)!” Am I following? Am I reading, applying and DOING what He says? If I am, I can look around at my life and SEE the fruit of what was planted. Or lack thereof!

God has a Family Business and that is to have ME looking like His Son! It is a HIGH Aim! But one He promises He can help me reach, IF I will simply ‘quit aiming at nothin!’ So here’s the question… “What are YOU aiming for?”