Nanook of the North
My wife and I had dinner with some great friends one evening and they told us about a great little documentary called “Nanook of the North” filmed in 1920-1.
We ordered and received the DVD from Netflix and watched in wonder. ”Nanook of the North” is about Nanook and his family in the Canadian Artic struggling to survive following the food wherever it may surface from beneath the ice.
We saw him kill fish with his teeth, stab a seal through the ice with a harpoon. This movie is definitely not PETA safe.
I began to wonder, what would happen if believers lived as Nanook did? Not stabbing the unchurched with harpoons through an Artic ice sheet, but living and relying on God for each day’s sustenance physical or spiritual.
What if each day we woke searching/hunting for our spiritual food in Scripture that sustained us the remainder of the day? What if we took our family along with us in our hunt in God’s word, as Nanook did? What if we did whatever it took to feed our family with God’s Word?
I often fail to do whatever it takes to spiritually feed my family. But what if I was like Nanook, beginning each day understanding it is up to me the spiritual leader to feed my family not only physically, but spiritually.
Oh, God give me the since of urgency that Nanook had in feeding his family.
God Bless, kennyb
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