My mom as a young woman, before I was born, worked at a large bank in Manhattan. As a bank employee, she was trained to recognize counterfeit bills. Down in the basement of the bank, my mother counted bill after bill, touching, feeling the money. She learned color, texture, weight of the paper.
My mom, and her fellow bank tellers, learned what was false by knowing first what was real.
Readers, do you see how this applies to us?
Never can we learn the ins and outs of all the false teaching in the world today. There is simply too much of it. Just go to your local bookstore, plug into the Internet, turn on your TV. It’s there.
Christian, be like my mom in the Manhattan bank. Recognize the lie, not by knowing what’s wrong with the counterfeit, but by knowing the truth.
Read your Bible. Get to know the words. Learn to combat the false by knowing first what is true.
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So very true!! Amen!
Oh that is an awesome word for the day!!!
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Very well said.
Monica, that’s a perfect analogy. When I went through nursing school and we had to learn to listen to people’s breathing with our stethoscopes, we listened ad nauseum to each other’s chests. Soon we all began complaining that it would be impossible to know an abnormal lung sound without hearing someone with a respiratory condition.
Our professors advised us to keep listening to each other’s chests and that in time we would get our chance to hear some ‘sick’ lungs.
The first time I listened to a respiratory patient’s rattled breathing it was so obvious that there was no mistaking it for an abnormality. The same holds true with the analogy you presented as it relates to knowing (discerning) what’s godly and what isn’t. Power-packed little post.
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Love it, Deb. Thanks for sharing.
That is so very true! And, we need to keep reading it. When I was young … I read my Bible a lot. Years later, when I had fallen away from the faith, someone could say something was in the Bible and if it sounded right … I believed it. And, when they said the Bible didn’t say certain things, I believed that too. When the Lord called me back to Him and I started studying my Bible … the first thing I noticed was all the things I had believed were in the Bible (or not). I couldn’t believe I had been so wrong about so many things! LOL
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