Have you ever heard the expression, "Too much to do, too little time."?  If you're anything like me, you have used this expression before.  Let me ask you something, though: how much time do you spend with God?  Do you spend more time reading, shooting baskets, or surfing the Internet, than you do with God?  Americans, especially, have that problem- God seems to be the dull book that sets upon the shelf in your room.  Or it's the book that is under you bed, that happens to be underneath the socks that you wore when you were twelve, which is underneath the half-eaten cheese sandwich that's half-way decomposed which, in turn, is underneath the study planner that you haven't used since the seventh grade.  Naturally, unless you have a room like my brother's your Bible is probably on the shelf; but it might as well be buried under your bed if you don't read it!

   Until you pick up your Bible and actually take to heart the words inside it, it's just another book (coincidentally "Bible" means "good book.").  And if you look around the "Christian" community, you will see many branches that follow really "way out there" teachings that are based on the Bible!  Because, if you only look in your Bible on Sunday's you're not going to know when someone is taking a particular verses out of Scriptural context.  It happens everyday, and the sad thing is people believe what these teachers say!

   Am I trying to imply that you shouldn't go to church?  NO!  I am saying that not everything that glitters is gold; not every pleasing teaching is equal to what God says!  Some cults say you can buy blessings from God (to give Him glory, of course!) by making yourself rigidly conformed to their rules.  Either that or they turn the grace of God into something that we do not need to be thankful for.

   This isn't an endorsement for a Christian anarchy, but a simple warning.  Let's lean on the Word, and not so much on man.  Yeah, we all are going to need help along the way; but how can you find the answer to something is you haven't defined the question first?