Blinker Fluid?

The other day my grown daughter asked some of the guys in the neighborhood to help with her car. They checked the fluids, wipers, tires, etc. They were helping her to keep the car safe while she drives around in the snow with two little children.

The guys are practical jokers and thought they would pull a good one on her by asking about the blinker fluid. Thankfully, my daughter is not as gullible as some would believe and she just laughed.

I have a woman that emails me often with all sorts of silliness from alerts to warnings to a whole variety of chain letters that desperately and immediately need to be passed on to all my friends so that the blessings of God won’t be broken in my life.

I take the alerts and warnings, do a copy/paste of the first two sentences or so, and slam them into a Google search. Undoubtedly, they will show up on hoaxbusters.com or hoaxslayer.com. Those are sites dedicated to exposing hoaxes, myths and just junk in general.

It completely fascinates me at what some people will pass around in the name of truth, especially when it generates such false fears. The bible talks about being sober minded. It speaks of being watchful and sober. In the Greek that means to be sober, calm and collected in spirit, to be temperate, dispassionate, or circumspect.

Whether someone is trying to convince you that ‘your angel’ (which by the way is not biblical) wants to bless the first 20 folks on your mailing list but only if you get the email sent to him or her within 3 hours or that your blinker fluid needs to be checked, use caution and don’t be afraid to question its soundness, intelligibility or common sense.

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. ~ 2 Timothy 4:3-5