Otters “hold hands” while sleeping, so they don’t float away from each other.

Believers need to stay close because that is the way God designed us. No one is an island. Some believers look for any excuse to stay away from others. This can be a bad sign.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

Hebrews 10:25

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

Give it some thought and like the Beatles would sing, “I want to hold your hand.”

Gary

George Jones sang “He Stopped Loving Her Today “which became an instant hit in 1980. It was about a man who loved someone who wouldn’t love him in return. She had made the statement many times that she loved him, but that love evaporated. According to the song, only death ended his torment.

There is a love that the masses of humanity fall prey to and struggle with to the end. That illusion is the love for the world. You guessed it. The Bible addresses the subject.

1 John 2:15-17

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Give it some thought before George is right about another casualty of a love gone sour.

Gary

Flamingos are not pink. They are born grey; their diet of brine shrimp and blue-green algae contains a natural pink dye called canthaxanthin that makes their feathers pink. Flamingos in zoos often lost their coloring, until zoo keepers supplemented their diets.

People can often look at you and tell what kind of diet you’re on. That is also true spiritually.

Matt 7:16-18

You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.  A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 

Careful with that diet. Make sure it is Biblically-based. People will notice.

Give it some thought.

Gary

Whales really do communicate with each other. One whale sounded the following caution to his dear mate:  “Better watch it; when you get to the top and start to blow, that’s when you get harpooned!”

 What’s true at sea is also true in our world.

The account is found in 1 Kings 22. Two kings went to battle and one convinced the other to wear his royal robes while he disguised himself. Needless to say, the first king left the battlefield, screaming at the top of his lungs.

1 Kings 22:30

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will enter the battle in disguise, but you wear your royal robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.

Learn a lesson from history because your accomplishments can make you a target. Seems the gullible king was one fry short of a happy meal.

Give it some thought.

Gary

Squeeze a tennis ball…. that’s the amount of pressure exerted by your heart when it beats.

During an average lifetime, the human heart will have pumped about 1 million barrels of blood.

Every day, your heart produces enough energy to power a truck for 20 miles of driving. Over an average lifespan, it creates enough energy to drive a truck to the moon and back.

That same heart will beat OVER 2.5 BILLION times in an average lifetime!

IF YOU DON’T THINK WE ARE “FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE,” you haven’t begun to live, really live.

Take time to thank an Almighty God today.

Today’s message comes to you with input from a crazy Frenchman, missionary, friend and supporter of our ministry.

Psalm 139:14 

I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Your works; my soul knows it very well.

You don’t have to be French to give it some thought.

Gary

The Boston Globe, which carries a daily column designed to answer readers’ queries, listed the top ten unanswerable questions. Here’s one: “I am nine years of age and have a cat that eats regularly and needs to go on a diet. He also eats mice when he is out. How many calories in a mouse?”

I googled it.

This translates to about 10 to 15 pieces of cat kibble or about one ounce of canned cat food. Cats who are not being fed by humans would have to hunt and eat 5 to 6 mice every single day. The average mouse is 30 calories compared to a payday bar which contains 240.

This was only to get your attention. What does that have to do with us? Well, everybody has to eat something, but the necessity for spiritual food surpasses the need for any other nutrition.

Matthew 4:4

But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

1 Corinthians 10:3

And all ate the same spiritual food,

I am so glad we don’t have to eat mice and that God has given us a much better diet.

Give it some thought.

Gary

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

                                                                                                             –Hudson Taylor

Since you want the day to go right, consider the one who is all-knowing and desires to lead you. One never knows what critters await you in your journey through the day.

Psalm 32:8 

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you.

Proverbs 16:9 

The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.

Psalm 37:23 

The steps of a man are established by the Lord, when he delights in His way;

Give it some thought and go hand in hand with Him.

Gary