May these two quotes give you pause; they surely hit home with me. We spend way too much time absorbing other people’s thoughts and ideas about God, rather than knowing Him intimately through the Scriptures.

Are we staying connected to Him through the daily renewal of His Word? There is no other way.

“What a wealth of information for success is to be found in the best of books! But how superficial it is compared to the knowledge of Truth which comes by the Holy Spirit through his Word.”

“Your only real hope to understand Truth is to dare put away all the commentaries and footnotes concerning God and his relationship to you and to allow the Holy Spirit himself opportunity to communicate Truth to you. He alone is the Teacher (1 John 2:27; John 14:26; 16:13; 1 Corinthians 2:12-14). You are subject to error when you read the Scripture in the light and context of everything else you are reading and hearing, even from your favorite authors and speakers.”

Don Whisnant