Be like Bubba

Bubba Smith, who died back in August, was a football player in the 1960s and 1970s who had a beer commercial with an “easy-open” can. He had a lucrative contract, but he later saw inebriated people who were mocking him about the “easy-open” can and he realized that he did not want his name attached to that kind of behavior. Smith said he quit the beer campaign because he felt it sent the “wrong message to kids.”

Are we involved in something that affects our influence? John wrote, “And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure” (1 John 3:3). You need to make sure that you are righteous. Seek the rest of heaven and don’t ruin your influence. We need to be like Bubba, not in the sense that we endorse what’s evil, but in that we can see the affect of bad decisions and decide to do something better and renounce them.

Kyle Campbell