Whom do you follow?

In my blog 20-40-60 I talked about the 3 periods of time in my life. This happened when I was 13. I was raised on a farm in east central South Dakota.  We were haying, and getting ready to cut grain.  My dad needed to get our car from one place to another and the men were busy, so I was asked if I would drive the car home.  All excited,  it didn't take long for me to say yes.  I was following my Uncle LeRoy to our farm;  there was an  S curve in the gravel road.  Uncle LeRoy decided to do a fish tail, you know, sort of make the back end of his car slide around the curve.  I decided to do the same!  Little problem, though: I lost control of the car and caught an approach with the front end .  After the car flipped twice,  it continued to roll 3 more times.  The last thing I saw was the car coming down on top of me.  It must not have been my time.  I don't know how or why but it stopped.  My Uncle LeRoy was my idol.  I thought anything he did was great. it  I wanted to be just like him.  Well it didn't work!  It wasn't his fault; he was just showing off.  He had no idea that I would try the same thing.  In life we have to be careful whom we decide to follow. This could have cost me my life.  

In life today it isn't any different.  We chose to follow those that we idolize more often then we should.   It could be a pastor in error, singer, movie star, the list goes on and on.  The choices that we make could result in lift or death, both physically and spiritually.  If  it weren't eternal it would be a different matter.  The choices we  should make in life should always be based on what the Bible teaches: it's the only book of truth.  If I believe something that the Bible doesn't teach,  it is error.  If I teach something that is error,  the consequences are not good.  But though we, or an Angel from Heaven,  Preach any other Gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you,( Jesus Christ and Him Crucified), let him be accursed.GALATIANS 1:8 (KJV).  This is so important that Paul restates it in verse 9.  There is a song that I learned in Sunday school as a child. It went, " Oh be careful little eye what you see, and little ears what you hear, and little hand at what you do.   There's a Father up above, looking down in tender love so be careful little eyes what you see."  When you enter junk into a computer,  junk comes outand, it's the same for our minds and our spirits..  When I stand before the Lord at my judgement no one else will be there except me and my advocate Jesus.  Don't make choices that you won't be able to defend!   Decide today to ask for forgivness and ask Jesus into your heart.  If you are saved,  ask the Lord to show you if there is error in your walk with Him.  It has life or death consequences.