Learning Truth

Proverbs 14:15 
Only simpletons believe everything they're told! The prudent carefully consider their steps. (NLT) 

From the time we come into this world we are taught to believe those over us. It starts with our parents and grandparents. Then it extends to our teachers at school and then college.

Mix in the surrogate teachers such as the video games, movies, and television shows we are exposed to early in our lives and we have a lot of things we consider truth.

Video games and television have replaced personal contact at home. They have become babysitters allowing us to separate ourselves from our children while we do our own thing at home. We let screenwriters and computer programmers teach our own children.

Wow, what a mess has been made. And we wonder why many grow up confused and unable to discern right from wrong, good from bad.

Gone are the days of learning moral values from stay at home moms. Gone are those days of learning to read and then enjoying books where we learn additional values. Gone are those days of even reading the Word of God.

Many churches have even given over their sunday schools to video teachings of others. They listen/watch the production and then discuss what has been said. Instead of reading God's Word and learning how to find the Truth in it, we are told the truth.

Thank God for the preachers who still rely on Holy Spirit to help them prepare a message and even all HIm to put words in their mouths as the speak. For a message might be good when it is created by piecing it together from little bits of other's talks. But it is life changing when Holy Spirit is allowed to step in and step up the message.

No matter who we are listening to or what we are reading, the most important thing to do is test the message with the Word of God. And I am not just speaking about a sunday message at church. No, I am talking about our daily walk in life. If what we see or hear does not line up with what God has revealed to us personally in His Word, then we MUST avoid it. We must turn the other way toward God and be free.