True or False?

Teachers oftentimes quiz us with true and false questions.   How do you tell if something is true or false?  Most often, you have to know the true statement in order to recognize that something is false. When I study for a test and I'm looking over true and false worksheets I don't spend very much time on the false ones. Why? Because it is the true statements that I need to know!  When a person is trained to find false money, they first count real money.  They sit in a room and count real money.  The person is then placed somewhere that false money is likely to appear.  When they are handed false money, they immediately know that it is fake! They might not know why, but they know that something about it is wrong.

In the same way we need to study God's Word, so that when something comes along that is incorrect, we know that something is wrong.  We should also memorize scripture.  Jesus responded with scripture when He was tempted by the devil.  The devil proceeded to leave him alone!  The importance of studying scripture is unmeasurable! Study scripture, learn scripture, memorize scripture!

Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.' 

Mathew 4:4 

Thanks to my friend Ashleigh for the metaphor about false money for this blog!