Weekly Devotional for 4/20/08  

  “Test Everything.  Hold on to the good” 1 Thessalonians 5:21. 

  You have a cough and the beginning of a sore throat, so you go to the medicine cabinet and find a bottle.  Do you just take a pill or two or three?  No.  You first have to know what symptoms the medicine will alleviate and if the medicine is not expired.  The same thing needs to happen with everything in life.  Test it by the standard of God’s Word.  How does it hold up to the pattern?  Ask, “Will this help keep my mind and heart on things above or on earthly things?  Then throw away the bad, but hold on to the good.  Going through this life without testing everything is like going to the church’s refrigerator and taking a swig of milk that someone bought for a meal months ago and no one wants to throw out.  Be a Berean (Acts 17:11).

? Do you test everything?