Check It.

I recently had the opportunity of going home for Fall Break. I use the word Break in the broadest since of the term. Papers needed to be written, books needed to be studied, and homework needed to be completed, but it was a Break from class nonetheless. As I spent time with my family, I coupled that time with my Capstone Project. My topic is Joan of Arc. My grandmother and I spent one evening watching many documentaries on the life of Joan of Arc. She fell asleep. I did not. Later on that night, my mother asked my grandmother what she had watched with me, to which my grandmother responded, "We have been watching the sweetest film, Anne of Green Gables." This is not even in the realm of what we had been watching. The life of a young orphan versus a young girl being burned to death for her faith.
Check everything.
Although this was a simple mistake. Aging would be the justification for it. It would have been easy for my mother to believe it. Someone that she loves was explaining what she did that evening.
Often times, people take Scripture this way. If someone that I love, or is in a high position makes a remark about the Gospel, many times, I take it as fact. Without having spent any time checking to make sure. The Lord is our teacher, not those around us. Seeking advice and council from others is important, yes. Yet it should not be the sole resort.
This can be scary.
There has been countless amount of wednesday nights and sunday mornings in which no matter what the pastor is preaching on, I whole heartedly agree and believe it. This is scary because what would happen if one sunday, the topic did not line up with Scripture.
I would not know.
Although the majority of the people I choose to spend time with, constantly shower me with great advice and their motives are pure, at the end of the day we are all human. We are all marred.
I need to be doing my part. God gave us His written Word for a reason. Lazy, would be the excuse for me not to check anything and everything.
Check everything, and in doing so notice how the amount of time you spend with God, in His Word, increases throughout the day.