I step into my storage shed and stare blankly into space. The question on my mind is, “What did I come here for?” Seems like at this juncture in my life, thoughts are hard to hold. Understandable, I guess, while floating down the river of time.

Sure am glad God doesn’t have those problems with His thoughts.

Psalm 139:17-18

How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;
When I awake, I am still with You.

Isaiah 55:8-9

 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

God is thinking about you, but are you thinking about Him? Give it some thought and don’t forget it.

Gary

I remember being in the third grade and looking out the window to the field and the woods in the back of the school. The truant officer was chasing a boy who probably figured fishing was preferable to school. Many years later the Viet Cong were chasing him through the jungle of South Viet Nam. I believed he spent a lifetime of being hounded by something. He left this earth a few years back, and I would like to think the love of Christ caught up to him before he left.

While I’m on the subject, has the love of God caught up with you?

Romans 5:8 

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

Zephaniah 3:17 

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you by His love; He will exult over you with loud singing.

If God is after you, quit running and let Him have His way. Give it some thought.

Gary

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably, they are both disappointed.

–       Albert Einstein

If you desire real change, start with moi (yourself). The Scriptures are very clear in this respect.

2 Corinthians 5:17 

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

1 John 3:9 

No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.

Give it some thought and let God do the changing.

Gary

The video shows officers quickly surrounding the vehicle after the K-9 had entered the car, which enabled them to safely take the driver into custody.

Nothing will sober you up faster than a 60-pound German Shepherd flying through your window. Police K-9s are specially trained negotiators. After multiple warnings, officers deployed K-9 Midas through the driver’s side window. The results were predictable.

“The Hound of Heaven” is a famous 182-line religious poem by English writer Francis Thompson. Published in 1890, it describes a soul running away from God. God is the hound who chases the person with steady, slow, and certain steps. In the end, the soul realizes it cannot hide and finds love.

Luke 19:10 

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

When I was in bad shape and lawless, He came thru my window. Give it some thought.

Gary

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failure.”

–       S.I. Hayakawa.

Failure is not an excuse not to keep trying. Many an individual achieved success on the back of many failures. Don’t give up because success could be just over the next rise.

Philippians 3:12-14

Not that I have already attained or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

If you failed, don’t look back; try again. Give it some thought.

Gary

Headline: Five teen friends killed after vehicle plunges down Colorado cliff, leaving community shattered.

Unfortunately, we’re not born with an expiration date stamped on the bottom of our foot.

What does the Bible say about life? Glad you asked.

Proverbs 27:1 

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

Psalm 112:7 

He is not afraid of bad news; his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord.

Life is unpredictable. We can you handle it with God. Give it some consideration.

Gary

He was just another kid who liked being funny. For example, a popup flyball was coming down towards him, so he lay face down on the sod and put his glove over his head. It was a funny scene. The years passed and he sold some drugs to a boy who later wrecked his car.  It wasn’t a joke anymore. The boy’s life ended on the asphalt, and the seller’s emotional well-being ended right along with it.

Lesson: Life is unpredictable, and our actions are not always humorous but can be deadly. The way we bring up children, our plans for the future, and our lack of responsibility as Christians can bring death to others.

Is this a new concept? No, it started six thousand years ago.

Genesis 3:1-24 

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”

And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’”

But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” …

Careful out there. Give it some thought.

Gary