Do you listen to your mates and take what they say about God as being the absolute truth? Do you listen to your pastor and take what they say as being the truth? Do you listen to what we say here as Aftershock and know that it is the absolute truth? Hmm that’s interesting. Ok here is a quick pop quiz, which of these sayings is not in the Bible?
1. God works in mysterious ways.
2. Cleanliness is next to godliness.
3. Money is the root of all evil
4. The eye is the window to the soul
5. Spare the rod, spoil the child
Well did you guess? The answer is none of them. None of those sayings are in the Bible, yet there are millions of people walking around speaking those sayings with authority as though they are fact. Sometimes they are twisted versions of verses from the Bible, other times they simply do not exists, but how would you know? You would know because you should question everything your mates say about God, everything you pastor says about God, everything Aftershock says about God. James reminds us in this passage that being a teacher is hard and we often get it wrong. So when you hear someone say something like money is evil and the Bibles says so, go and find out for yourself what God really says in his Bible. If we say that you must live the be true, actually it is true, but you will believe it all the more when you read it in Gods owners’ manual, the Bible for yourself.
