Bible Study Verse
John 8:32 
“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (NIV)
 
Thoughts
 A few years ago on a Texas Hill Country spring morning I was hunting Turkey and the woods exploded with the gobbles of thirteen turkeys. With this many birds hitting it this hard, I could already smell a bird in the oven. I eased down into a bottom where an old Big Tom was shaking the woods with his gobbles. This wasn’t going to be hunting; it was going to be self-defense. 
 
After getting set up, I sent out a smooth set of yelps; and he just about strangled gobbling back at me. Within five minutes, I could see glimpses of him working through the bottom about eighty yards out. Back and forth he would strut and gobble, but he would not come any closer. The morning passed on; and finally, after an hour-and a-half, he walked away. I was sick. 
 
Why, wouldn’t he come? I walked to the area where he had been and found my answer. There was an old barbed wire fence stretched across the bottom, and he wouldn’t cross it. He was a hung-up bird.

Life has a way of being full of hung-up birds. We get hung up on all kinds of junk that keeps us from the awesome life that the Lord has for us. Today, you may be hung up by not being the person you are called to be. Let the Lord cut the old barbed wire out of your life and set you free. 

Action Point
The Bible teaches us that, “We shall know the truth and it will set us free.” If you are hung up today with a problem that just won’t go away, or by the hope of an opportunity that just won’t come, then apply the truth principle to it: Discover God’s truth as it relates to what you are dealing; then, apply that truth and move forward into God’s blessing of freedom.

Sportsmen’s Tip of the Day
There are times in turkey hunting when you have to relocate. Had I known about the old fence, I would have simply backed off and somehow eased around the fence and set up. There is a danger of relocating too quickly or too often. But, some days it is a must-do trick in order to harvest Old Tom.

 
May God Bless Today and Throughout The Week
Jimmy Hassell-Executive Director