Is There An Alligator In Your Backyard?

THERE IS AN ALLIGATOR IN THE BACK YARD.

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes)

KINDNESS: I CARE, FRIENDLY, GENEROUS, CONSIDERATE, understanding, to choose to do something to help, warm feelings. ARE WE WAITING FOR AN ANGEL TO BE KIND? Why are some people kind and some people are mean?

HOW TERRIBLE ARE THE WORDS: “I DON’T CARE?” APATHY? TRAPS OF WEARINESS? BEWARE? ARE WE GROWING DANGEROUS TRAPS? HOW CAN WE TEACH KINDNESS? WHAT COULD ONE ACT OF KINDNESS DO?

I read where Oprah Winfrey was traveling on a toll road. Someone paid the tolls for the next 5 cars. Oprah was so touched by this. She turned around and drove back and paid the next 100 cars’ toll? TOUCHED?

Galatians 6:9 (MSG) So let's not allow ourselves to get fatigued doing good. At the right time we will harvest a good crop if we don't give up, or quit. 10 Right now, therefore, every time we get the chance, let us work for the benefit of all, starting with the people closest to us in the community of faith.

A friend of mine went to Florida on vacation. They liked to hike and see the beautiful scenes in the swamps where they were staying. They found this huge 12 feet long alligator dead, laying in the hot sun. He jumped up and down and screamed. The dead alligator never moved. He threw rocks at it and the dead alligator never moved. He decided for his wife to take a picture of him standing by the dead alligator. He grabbed a stick and climbed down to where the dead alligator was. He stood next to the alligator with his stick. He rested the stick in the middle of the alligator’s back. He said: “CHEESE.” About that time the dead alligator tried its best to jerk the man into the water. If the man had not had the big stick the story would have ended in a much different way.

Seems we have a tendency to love to play with different things that can bring grave danger to us or our families. We make a big deal to get our little kids ready to go to the mall and make pictures with SANTA CLAUS. Seems we forget our children have souls and are headed to eternity with one of two choices. We have a divine responsibility to sow the seeds that will bear the spiritual fruit of heaven.

ARE WE ENTERTAINING ALLIGATORS? WHAT FRUIT IS IN YOUR ORCHARD? DO WE HAVE A WILLINGNESS TO CHANGE AND DEVELOP BY BEING FAITHFUL?

God has a plan to bring good gifts to us personally. Just as the gardener plants seeds and with patience the seeds will grow fruit.

Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Galatians 5:22 (NLT2) But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

WANT TO EXPERIENCE SOME MAGIC? TRY KINDNESS. I READ IN FAST FOOD CHAINS THE AVERAGE ANNUAL TURNOVER RATE IS 170%. Wow, wonder why?

1 Corinthians 13:4 (MSG) Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn't want what it doesn't have. Love doesn't strut, Doesn't have a swelled head, 5 Doesn't force itself on others, Isn't always "me first," Doesn't fly off the handle, Doesn't keep score of the sins of others, 6 Doesn't revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, 7 Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end.

LIFE IS GOD’S GIFT TO MAN! WHAT YOU DO WITH YOUR LIFE COULD BE A GIFT BACK TO GOD. LIFE? LIFE IS A DIVINE GIFT.

Galatians 6:10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

Galatians 6:10 (MSG) Right now, therefore, every time we get the chance, let us work for the benefit of all, starting with the people closest to us in the community of faith.

The life that God gives us is NEUTRAL. When life is given it is neither good nor bad. What life becomes is up to the individuals: LIFE CAN BE GOOD? LIFE CAN BE BAD…

AS THE MAN WAS WALKING TO DEATH ROW, HE TURNED AND SAID: I AM WHAT I AM BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT I CHOOSE TO BE.

Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: 32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Ephesians 4:31 (MSG) Make a clean break with all cutting, backbiting, profane talk. 32 Be gentle with one another, sensitive. Forgive one another as quickly and thoroughly as God in Christ forgave you.