Test everything

Try all things; hold fast what is good. – 1 Thessalonians 5.21

‘Test everything’ God says.

We live in a lazy day where people seem really disinclined to check things out. Social media was really fed into that. We retweet and share without a thought to seeing if things are true. That’s a really sad situation be cause when we do that we show the world that our word really cannot be trusted.

There were plenty of false teachers floating around in Paul’s day. They had crept into the church sneakily to spread their pernicious lies. False teachers only succeed when people re not willing to check them out.

We can’t just go along with what we hear. Sure, there is a point where we can somewhat trust people, but we must never be casual about what we hear taught. We must, like the Bereans, examine what we hear to make sure it conforms in the scriptures.

Try everything. Test everything. Examine everything. Don’t be caught out by false teachers.

Then we hold fast to the things that we find are good. It can be tough work. It can require a lot from us. But is is well worth it.

Don’t just go along with the flow – don’t be a sheeple. Check things out for yourself. Secular or sacred we must be promoters of truth, and we can’t do that is we don’t check things out.