Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and as you well know if you hang out with me much I really like fly fishing

but fly fishing back east is very different than fly fishing out west where I

live back east a lot of the places where the water is cold enough for trout is at the bottom of dams.

You get that reservoir, the water is hot on top, too hot for trout, but down at the bottom it's

cold for trout and then that water comes out of the dam and it's real cold and so for a few

hundred yards or a few miles you get trout water in places where otherwise that might not

happen which is awesome as a fly fisherman I can go below a dam and I a dam and I can get rainbow trout and it's really fun, but it's also kind of dangerous because eventually those dams are going to open up at some point during the day and the low flow water level which is nice for waiting around

it's serene and tranquil will turn into mean high flow water really quickly and

they got stuff on the website so you can check when they're going to open up the dams and

there's usually a horn that sounds to say, hey, you might want to get out of there.

And so I had it all scheduled out one time when I was in Tennessee fishing with a buddy, but after we waited out several

hundred yards into the middle of this very wide river and it was kind of tricky to get there,

I start pulling out the fish and then I look at a rock that I could see a minute ago and now I can't see the rock.

And then I look at the rate of flow of the water. I'm like, oh no, I need to get out of here. I had the time wrong or something but the water is coming and so I signaled my buddy

and we start trying to get out and we just can't it's too deep we're wearing

waiters you really don't want your waiters to fill up with water and we did end up having to swim out with full

waiters you can speculate as to what the waiters were full of but we were a little

bit panicked and as that water came up that sense of control that we like to have

about our natural environment started to go away and you gotta play it real cool but

inside you're like this could be it right here right now.

Likewise in Matthew chapter 8 we've got a situation where things are cool and under

control in a natural environment and things get out of control really quickly.

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