What’s a skill you consider basic, that most people don’t actually know how to do?

Blind guides, straining out a little fly and swallowing a camel.

Fiction often resembles facts, and, in the current free for all in information exchange, millions are mislabeling truth and lies. In our lifetime we have seen that countless deaths have occurred because someone failed to handle scientific facts in a mature and responsible manner. The same can be said of spiritual information exchange. Knowing how to receive instruction about the health and optimal functioning of our psyche and how to vet that information is not a widespread skill.

That is why Jesus said about his contemporaries that they majored in minors, or, in our terms, made millions of a zero. They gave up a tenth of their property gains – herbs and spices, but they had a ten-foot pole for justice, mercy and faithfulness.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the Law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others. (Matthew 23:23, NASB)

In bad shape blind or following the blind

How to receive and how to vet – fact check –  information is not a widespread skill.

“You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel! (Matthew 23:24, NASB)