At church last evening my pastor began his sermon on the Lord's Prayer saying that we've all heard "Don't believe everything you read" and "Don't believe everything you see" Then he said something that continues to rattle around in my brain. He said, "Don't believe everything you think."
How easily we deceive ourselves and how desperately we need to take the things we think and run them past the truth found in God's Word. I know this is true. I have said things like this to others in my more than 35 years in ministry. But there was something about the way he said it that caused me to stop and consider again the importance of the Bible as my North Star. (Some of these thoughts may also be fueled by seeing "Inception" twice.) How quickly I assume that my understanding of reality is the correct one. How wrongly I assume that my thinking on issues is accurate. How often I am wrong.
I did listen to the rest of the sermon, but his opening was worth the price of admission. I'm off to spend to some time in the truth, asking God to show me what is real.
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