Jim Croce wrote a song about a man he meets in basic training. With a little imagination, he came up with this line in 1973:

And it’s bad, bad Leroy Brown
The baddest man in this whole town
Badder than old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog

Matthew 7:17

Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.

Matthew 7:18

A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.

Matthew 12:33

Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.

What words of a song will be written of your life? You’d better be considering it.

Gary

You’ve heard the statement, “I’m just killing time.” It is not a true statement. Time can’t be killed. Time can only be used for good or bad. Time processes us, and when time here ends, we’re gone to a land without time.

Revelation 10:6

And swear by Him that lives for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:

Ephesians 5:16 

Making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.

God gave you time and you’re doing what with it? Give it some time for thought.

Gary

Who was the first drug addict in the Bible?

Answer: Nebuchadnezzar — he was on grass for seven years. (Daniel 4:23- 33)

How did he find himself in such a state? He thought he was really something, and God had nothing to offer. Big mistake made by a multitude. Don’t get hooked on grass when God promises to give you a real and everlasting high.

Daniel 4:30

The king spoke, saying, “Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal dwelling by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty?”

His sin was lying to himself. God was the one who made him king over Babylon. No, he wasn’t smoking. Give it some thought.

Gary

In one kiss, over 500 germs can be exchanged between two people. Now that’s a scary fact.  Then again, without going into too much detail, it does depend on whom you kiss. Ask Hosea.

Hosea 14:2

Now they sin more and more,
And have made for themselves molded images,
Idols of their silver, according to their skill;
All of it is the work of craftsmen.
They say of them,
“Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves!”

Have you been kissing any calves in your life? Please, break the habit. Give it some consideration.

Gary

Woke up this morning to my 73rd year. Stumbled into the bathroom, looked in the mirror and was struck with the thought, you are some failing presence of humanity. If you were a tree on Irving land, they would have harvested you three times already. I remember my dad turning 40, and as an eight-year-old, I thought he shouldn’t even be going to work.

Does the Bible address age? Glad you asked.

Psalm 90:10 

The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Psalm 92:12-14 

The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the Lord; they flourish in the courts of our God. They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green,

I might be old, but I’m full of sap and still green. How are you doing? Give it some thought.

Gary

Love can’t be bought and it can’t be sold. Someone said, “MRI scans indicate that love lights up the pleasure center of the brain. Love is just a brain juice with the emotion of attachment.” Can’t say I agree with that, but if so, the juice can dry up quickly. Now here is real love.

Romans 5:8 

But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

1 John 4:16 

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Can’t beat that kind of love, and it’s available for everyone. Give it some thought.

Gary

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” —Estée Lauder

Now that statement smells like a recipe for success. If you desire a fragrant life, take that quote to the bank. Does the Bible address the concept?  Glad you asked.

Proverbs 16:3 

Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

Proverbs 18:9 

Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.

Proverbs 14:23 

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.

You want to smell better?  Work up a sweat. Give it some thought.

Gary