Yardstick

After I John 4:1-6

So many claims, so many

speakers, so many spirits

claiming inspiration and it’s

often difficult to discern,

difficult to know, really,

because they say the right things,

look the part, quote

the right sources, spout

off those verses like a master.

But we have a yardstick:

do these voices, these spirits,

acknowledge the one who came

in the flesh? Sometimes it’s

difficult to question the source

of the message, but question

we must, and question

we can.

Photograph by Junior Libby via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.