How relevant for our time is this passage. If you're ever on Facebook, or through email get alarming messages with unbelievable claims, you see what zeal without knowledge looks like. It's when you read something like SENATOR PROPOSES BILL REQUIRING BABIES TO BE TAXED. Good thing we have Snopes and other fact-checking groups to check the validity of the rumors. I wonder what makes people want to hurt the people they're speaking of so badly so as to mislead others through telling lies and spreading smear? And the sad thing is, most people don't check the facts. We get so caught up in the emotion of the claim, or share the negative view of the person who's the subject of the rumor, that we forward the message on... with zeal and without knowledge. As a people of faith, we must speak from a different view that is measured and informed. And we should show little tolerance for the pervasive lying that flows so freely as though it were normal in our culture today. Sometimes it's okay to be a rebel without a cause, but don't be a rebel without a clue.
Readings: 1 Chronicles 11:1-12:18; Acts 28:1-31; Psalm 9:1-12; Proverbs 19:1-3
