So many times we look to our leaders in church, Bible study groups, prayer groups, etc., to lead us into the truths of God. We seek to understand our walk of faith by their barometers, their experience, and, ultimately, by their understanding. But too often we find that we are missing something, not just in our understanding, but in our relationship with God. The problem is that our faith can only go as far as the understanding of another human being. That we are following them, instead of God.

They have become our human filter.

You can not build a relationship with someone without ever meeting them, talking with them, and getting to know them personally. We can not build relationships by proxy. We must know them, not someone else, to have OUR relationship with them. But this is exactly what we do with the most important relationship that we can have. We trust in the arm of flesh. In this case it means following our leaders in faith blindly, without doing our own “due diligence”.

When we read someone else’s posting or articles (including mine) without any study or knowledge of our own, we are trusting that they are right. They may well be, but our own understanding of things is rooted in their understanding of things. We, by reason of the beast, can not go any further than they have. If they are wrong, even if just by a little, our understanding will be wrong as well.

When you stand before God, it will be just you and God—no proxies will be present!

Our walk of faith is just that, OUR walk of faith. It will reflect what we know, what we believe, and what we do, or don’t do, in our discipleship to Christ. If we are not informed, for ourselves, we will be greatly lacking in the most important endeavor of our lives. We will have hampered our own walk with God by trusting in man to lead the way, when Christ is the one that should be leading us, guiding us, and HIS truths, not mans, will always guide us home.

Otherwise we fail to reach our destination.

So when you read something, no matter how “right” or “learned”, go find out the meaning for yourself. Your whole destiny could be at stake. Don’t filter God, and His truths, through any filter other than your own understanding. That filter is being cleaned and refreshed every time you use, just by the fact that you are establishing your own vibrant and alive relationship with God. His presence, the Holy Spirit, is always in your heart, guiding you and making clear the mysteries of God. It will testify of the truth, or error, of that which you are studying or reading.

And that is the only filter you want!

Be blessed, be loved, and be at peace,

Jonathan

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