Be Careful Whom You Quote

Proverbs 12:5 (KJV) The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

Everywhere you look there is some kind of a DIY waiting to show you how to do something.  It used to be that we had entire shelves of the library or the bookstore.  Now we see them in YouTube videos.  I’m sure you’ve noticed that sometimes a YouTube video is very helpful, other times not so much.

I remember in the past year I was working to fix the steering mechanism on a riding mower that I bought used.  I watched several videos and as a general rule, they made it look pretty easy.  What was interesting in watching multiple videos was that some advised you to be careful in a certain area while others advised you to be careful in another area.  All of them seem to leave out some essential knowledge that I found I needed when I got into the project.  And all of them also were totally out to lunch on what my real problem was.

Be careful whom you use as a source.  I’m reading a number of books on different topics and I find that the secular authors who come from a liberal background tend to be rather unreliable at times.  I think I know enough, have enough background, I’ve been down the road to enough times, to discern what to listen to and what to ignore.  I get that discernment from a solid foundation of God’s word.

So as this first tells you, be careful who you listen to.  There are those out there who are not just making mistakes, but are deliberately deceiving.  Have a good year.