I heard on my radio station that I could play it on Alexa. I’m not a techie person, so I wouldn’t even have thought to ask Alexa to play my radio station – although I know she plays my music from pandora. I was excited to try. Even my daughter commented that now I could stop playing the only pandora station I use.
The next morning, I asked Alexa to play the station, just I had heard the instructions on the radio. ‘She’ announced, playing k-love on radio.com, 98.7. Hmmm. Wasn’t my radio station 96.7? But it had the same name. So it seemed ok. Until it started playing. I didn’t recognize the first song, and figured it was just me. I didn’t recognize the second one either, and it was much more of a rock station.
I decided to give Alexa clearer instructions: ‘Alexa, play k-love radio on 96.7’. Sure enough, ‘she’ was able to get me to the right radio station.
I later remembered another devotion I read earlier in the week on the Devotable app. The author stated to her class that ‘there is no god’ in the Bible. Her students were shocked, but she asked them to find it in the Bible. When they did, the verse, found in Psalm 14:1 says ‘The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.’
This got me thinking.
How many times do you have partial information and we take it as Truth? This is why it’s so important to know what we believe for ourselves. We need to study the Bible for ourselves. We cannot only rely on what we are being told and accept it as truth.
Had I not known what I was looking for, I could easily have been misled by Alexa. Had the kids not gone searching for themselves, they might have believed the excerpt of the verse that was shared. It’s important to keep things in perspective and context.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for your unfailing wisdom. Help us to be discerning in what we hear. Help us to do our own studying so that we may show ourselves approved by you.