Counterfeit or Real...How Do You Tell?

I was having a discussion the other day about hearing the voice of God with a friend, and as we discussed what the Scripture said, I made the statement that if we don't read the Bible, and find out what it says, then we would really have a hard time distinguishing the voice of God.

We have an enemy, the devil, and he is always trying to trip us up in our walk with God. He constantly is assailing our thought life with his thoughts in the hope that we will pick them up and run with them. Actually that is the only way that he can win in our lives, when we take the thoughts he's thrown at us as our own, or worse that they are God's.

We have to know what the "real & true" is in order to realize a counterfeit when we see or hear it. Years ago, I learned that bank tellers are trained in how to recognize real money instead of how to recognize the fake stuff. It's in learning what the real looks like, that when a bill comes past them that is not real, it just jumps out at them. Just like the bank tellers, if we don't know what the real (God) is, then we will find ourselves falling for the fake (devil).

But how can we learn the difference? It's really simple, the Bible is God's will for mankind. We have to put our faces in the Bible daily and learn what it is that He has for us, then when those thoughts come around that speak to us something other than what we've learned what the Bible says, then we know to leave those thoughts, and cling to the ones that come from our Father.

It's really not that hard, we just have to be diligent to read God's Word the Bible daily. One thing that I have come to learn over the years, is that the Bible really will create it's own hunger, if we allow it to. So get your Bibles out everyone, and begin a Bible reading plan and watch your hunger for God's Word really take off! Then we'll be able to tell the difference between the counterfeit an the real. Get 'em up folks, let's go whip something for the Kingdom!