"Three Bullets"

This one has been around a while, but it is worth making the rounds again for reflection.

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Three Bullets
There once was a man who had nothing for his family to eat. He had an old rifle and three bullets. So, he decided that he would go out hunting and kill some wild game for dinner.
As he went down the road, he saw a rabbit. He shot at the rabbit and missed it. The rabbit ran away. They he saw a squirrel and fired a shot at the squirrel and missed it. The squirrel disappeared into a hole in a cottonwood tree. As he went further, he saw a large wild “tom” turkey in the tree, but he had only one bullet remaining.
A voice spoke to him and said, “Pray first, aim high and stay focused. However, at the same time, he saw a deer that was a better ill. He brought the gun down and aimed at the deer. But then he saw a rattlesnake between his legs about to bit him, so he naturally brought the gun down further to shoot the rattlesnake.
Still, the voice said again, “I said, 'Pray, aim high and stay focused.'”
So, the man decided to listen to God’s voice. He prayed, then aimed the gun high up in the tree and shot the wild turkey. The bullet bounced off the turkey and killed the deer. The handle fell off the gun and hit the snake in the head and killed it. And, when the gun had gone off, it knocked him into a pond. When he stood up to look around, he had fish in all of his pockets, a dead deer and a turkey to east for his family.
The snake (satan) was dead simply because the man listened to God.
Moral of this story:
Pray first before you do anything, aim and shoot high in your goals and stay focused on God. Never let others discouraged you concerning your past. The past is exactly that, ‘the past.” Live every day one day at a time and remember that only God knows our future and God is there to help you bear every part of that future. Do not look to others for your blessings, but look to the doors that only God has prepared in advance for you in your favor. Wait, be still and patient; keep God first and everything else will follow.
“Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added unto you.”