CRASH AGAIN

SERMON STORIES: LAUGH & LEARN
#7: CRASH AGAIN

Two hunters loved hunting for deer. Each hunting season, they chartered a plane to fly them into the forest to hunt. The hunting season came. They flew into the forest, and had a great time hunting.

When the plane came back to pick them up, the pilot saw they had shot five deer. “There is no way you can put the five deer in my plane—too heavy. You have to leave one deer behind.”

“But,” said the hunters, “last year we also shot five deer. We put them into a plane just like yours.” The pilot hesitated but since they did it last year, he agreed.

They loaded the five deer into the plane, the two hunters got in, and the pilot got it. The plane took off and everything was fine—till they came to a mountain. The plane was too heavy. it could not gain height, and crashed into the side of the mountain.

Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt. The pilot climbed out of the plane, and looked around. “I wonder where we are?” he asked. The hunters also got out and looked around. One of them said, “I think we are not far from where we crashed last year.”

It’s unthinkable that someone, having crashed once, would crash again. But don’t be too sure. Human nature is such that we don’t always learn from our mistakes.

“Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.”

Proverbs 26:11 ESV