March 21st, 2021: Who Should We Listen To?

 



March Madness is here. It is my favorite college sports tournament. It didn't take long for us to see a few upsets during the first few days of the competition as Ohio, Virginia and Tennessee failed to advance. I am always skeptical about the team rankings. They don't really mean much when teams have to do or die in one game. The experts sometimes fail badly.

When it comes to how we should conduct our lives, who should be the experts we rely on? Sometimes we are not sure about our faith leaders because so many of them have been influenced by their own political leaning and needs for power. We saw enough of that during the last elections.

Christians need to overcome the ignorance of our own Scriptures. We should not look for shortcuts by listening to self-proclaimed prophets. Some of these prophets are more about profits than the truth of God. We need to depend on God's revelation to understand how He has been dealing with humanity.

When God speaks, it is not about human glory. When God acts, it is not about the benefits of a few. When God corrects, it is for the entire humanity. When it comes to the battle of godliness, let us not count the deception of the evil one and fail to make it to the next round in being with God.

1 Peter 4: 10-11
"Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen."

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