Black Fish

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SCARY BLACK FISH 

When my children were in grade school, they began asking questions about the tsunamis.  Upon researching these horrific natural disasters, we came across a video about the 2004 Indonesia tsunami.  It showed pictures of lots of dead fish lying on the beach.  Black, fangy, scary looking fish that the ocean had vomited up from the deep dark bottom.  Their eyes were big, their teeth large and sharp, and they came in all different ghastly shapes and sizes.  We have no idea what is actually swimming around down there. All we can see is the beautiful fish near the surface, near the sunlight, unaware of what lives in the deep darkness.  This was an epiphany!  I said to myself, “I think I have some of those fish swimming around deep in my heart.  LORD, show me the black, fangy, scary looking fish that I have swimming in the depths of my heart, because I can’t see them, but you can. Sin hiding, lurking around in dark places.” 

 

Boom!  It wasn't but a few days later, one of those fish slapped me in the face!  God unveiled a HUGE problem of judgment and condemnation.  In fact, someone called me on it, right before a time of group prayer.  I could not even pray or think, I was so mad.  How could they say this about me, what are they thinking? 

God reminded me, you asked, I revealed!  He was showing in His love, the black fish I could not see.  I repented to the Lord of my sin and had to ask forgiveness from the one I condemned and judged self-righteously. 

The healing it brought to me and others was Gi-normous!  (That’s my word for wow!) 

 

The heart of man is like deep waters.

Proverbs 20:5 

 

Later, I asked a friend of mine, “Why do you think those fish at the bottom of the ocean are black, with big teeth, big eyes, and hideous looking?  Her response could not have been more accurate. 

She said,” Because they eat flesh and bones.  They devour all the death that sinks to the bottom floor.  They must have big teeth to break through bones, big eyes to see in the darkness, and black flesh because they never see the light of day.  Their purpose is to devour.   

Right then it was an ah ha moment.  Oh, I get it.   

That's why God wants not only me, but all of us to pray them out, because those black fish swimming in our hearts have one purpose, and that is to devour.  But Jesus’ purpose for us all, is to have life in Him. 

Sin devours, but Jesus brings life….healing 

  

Sin is crouching at your door, it desires to have you, but you must master it.  

Genesis 4:7