You likely know that a harpoon is “a barbed javelin or spear with a line attached to it, used for spearing whales or other large sea animals” (Webster New World Dictionary of the American Language). Have you ever been harpooned?  That is, have you ever been speared somewhere by someone or with something in your own life and couldn’t get loose?  Sometime back, or recently, you may have gotten harpooned at a meeting, and though, like a big whale, you have dragged out miles of line, and gone to the bottom of the sea of sin, the harpoon sticks in you still.

I know what you’ve been doing to get free.  You have tried the world, and now there is nothing there that pleases you.  I wonder what you will try next.  Will you try sex?  Will you try alcohol and/or drunkenness?  Will you try the use of drugs?  Will your try religion?

Well, if you’re going to get saved and get free from the harpoon, you will never rest until you are anchored in the port of Christ’s atoning sacrifice and love!

Recently I read the following from an author whose name I cannot find (I apologize for not being able to give proper credit).

“I sometimes hear of persons getting very angry after a gospel sermon,

and I say to myself, ‘I am not sorry for it.’  Sometimes when we are fishing,

the fish gets the hook into his mouth.  He pulls hard at the line: if he were

dead, he would not; but he is a live fish, worth the getting; and though he

runs away for a while, with the hook in his jaws, he cannot escape.  His very

wriggling and his anger show that he has got the hook, and the hook has got

him.  Have the landing net ready; we shall land him by-and-by.  Give him

more line; let him spend his strength, and then we will land him, and he shall

belong to Christ forever.”

Have you been harpooned and tried to get loose?  Come to Jesus!  Let him remove the sin (hook) from your life and set you free!

Are you running from God with a hook in your jaws?  Give it up!  Let him “land” you in His loving and secure arms.