Evidence it More Valuable than Words

It is more valuable to watch a person's life than to listen to their verbiage. I do this with politicians all the time. I see the nuances of their life, their body language and their facial expressions.

Its amazing what one can see when we have discernment.

Just believing what someone tells us without any other proof of their words is foolish. Many people are saying lots of things about their own lives that have no evidence in reality.

Narcissists have elevated views of their own abilities that are not warranted.

1 John 4:1-6
Testing the Spirits
4 Beloved, do not believe every spirit but test the spirits to see whether they are from God because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2 By this, you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses (by their life) that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;
3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world. 4 You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

The word "confess" here is more than words, its lifestyle. Just as the word "conversation" is used to describe a woman's life, not what she says but how she lives.

1 Peter 3:1 "Likewise, wives, [be] subject to your own husbands, that, even if any are disobedient to the word, they may be gained without [the] word by the conversation of the wives,"

The word "conversation" is the old English meaning "lifestyle."

Sadly I see so many people willing to believe whatever a preacher, politician or authority tells them without any evidence as to its credibility.

In our day "feelings are facts" and "words alone" are true. This is utter foolishness. We must examine the evidence to know the whole truth. We listen to words long enough to go and evaluate the evidence.