A negative mindset is known to trigger or heighten stress and anxiety — and new research has revealed other trickle-down effects on mental and physical health. Does the Bible address this revelation? Glad you asked.

Romans 8:5-6 

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

Colossians 3:2 

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Isaiah 26:3 

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.

Put these concepts in your mind.

Gary

Who was the greatest financier in the Bible?

Answer: Noah — he was floating his stock while everyone else was in liquidation.

Noah preached for 100 years and had little takers. Interestingly, the minority was right and the majority was left. Don’t get lost making the same mistake.

2 Peter 2:4-6

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; 

Give it some thought.

Gary

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