This ain’t my first rodeo is a colloquial expression used to imply that someone has a ton of experience in a particular situation or activity. It indicates that the speaker is not a novice and has been through similar scenarios before.

This doesn’t necessarily help with life on this planet. Life can be like a bucking bronco and you won’t be released until life is done with you. However, if you hang on tightly to the reins and offer a sincere prayer to God, He’ll give you comfort and assurance till the rodeo is over.

1 John 5:13 

I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.

2 Timothy 1:12 

Which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.

 Come on, you old buckeroo. God has a plan for you. Give it some thought and hold on.

Gary

Why did the student eat his homework? Because the teacher told him it was a piece of cake.

There are some things in the Bible that cannot be taken literally. Case in point:

Matthew 5:29

 If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.

Interpretation: anything that keeps you from heaven or in a state of constant guilt should be cut out. Our parents would yell at us, “Cut that out.”

Whatever keeps you from Christ, cut it out.

Whatever sin leaves you with guilt, cut it out.

Make some cuts before it is too late.

Give it some thought.

Gary

Some would have you believe that all you need is to have faith in God, and it doesn’t matter what god it is. That sounds really good to the multitude, for with that belief system, everyone makes it. Just don’t read the Scriptures because it blows that philosophy out of the water.

1 Corinthians 3:11

For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

If you are going to rest secure in the promise of eternal life, you had better check the foundation.

Give it some thought.

Gary

What did one pickle say to the other? Dill with it.

If you haven’t noticed, life is full of problems. It wouldn’t matter if you were a Christian or not. The rain falls on the just and the unjust. However, for the just, trouble can have an eternal purpose.

Job 5:7

Yet man is born to trouble, As the sparks fly upward.

Psalm 34:6 

This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.

Nahum 1:7 

The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; He knows those who take refuge in Him.

You have to deal with it, but you don’t have to deal with it alone. Give it some thought.

Gary

A spacecraft, built and flown by the Texas-based company Intuitive Machines, landed near the moon’s south pole on Thursday. This was the first U.S. touchdown on the lunar surface in more than half a century and the first ever achieved by the private sector. The spacecraft flipped over on its side, took some pictures and basically died, a monument to man’s ego. They considered it a success as 118 million dollars went down the drain.

Don’t be spending money and time on space travel. Invest in the blessed hope that God has promised every believer. Someday we are going to transverse this universe. The Apostle Paul had a trip there and couldn’t explain it.

2 Corinthians 12:2-4 

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter.

Get ready to fly away to vistas Captain Kirk never saw. Give it some thought.

Gary

A whimsical story is told of how boy scouts help little old ladies across the street. In this account, however, someone developed a vitamin so effective that a little old lady helped two boy scouts across the street. Now that pill would sell.

Let me suggest something that is not so whimsical, but actually attainable and that is what happens when one takes in the word of God. This ancient manuscript has energized a multitude effectively over the millenniums. This element once ingested can take you from here to eternity.

2 Timothy 3:16 

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Romans 15:4 

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Take a certain amount every day and your life will be transformed.

Give it some thought.

Gary

Why is faith like Wi-Fi? At the heart of what we choose to believe is a source and/or higher power that is not detectable by our senses. Just like WI-FI, faith is invisible. And also, like WI-FI, connecting to this invisible force will give us what we need.

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Hebrews 11:6 

And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who seek Him.

2 Corinthians 5:7 

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Make sure that dial is tuned to the right station that saves your soul and gives you direction as you navigate through life.

Give it some consideration.

Gary