I’m going to deviate a little bit from my norm…
When is the last time you did something you’ve never done?
When is the last time you did something, even though you didn’t know how to do it?
Think about something you used to do, and haven’t done for a long time…    Why did you stop?

I look around at the world, and I see lots of people who no longer do things.  I see a world full of people who watch other people do things instead.  I’ve seen teenagers watch a Youtube video of someone else playing a video game.
Do you understand?  Someone played a video game and recorded it in live time, and then uploaded the video to the internet. And people spend (cumulatively) millions of hours watching…
Do you know what could be accomplished in this world with millions of man-hours?
Just about anything, that’s what.
What if people spent those millions of hours doing something?

There is a Youtube phenomenon.
Casey Niestat.
I don’t know much about Casey, but millions upon millions of people know about him. He has a Youtube channel with short (5 to 15 minute) videos, mini-clips of his life.  His channel has accumulated BILLIONS of views in the last few years.
I recently viewed about 8 or 10 of his videos.
Here is what I learned about Casey Niestat:

Casey Niestat does lots of stuff.
He never stops doing stuff.
I am not promoting Casey Niestat here, but I am promoting the idea of doing things. Do lots of things. Do things you never imagined doing.  Meet people. Make things.  Interact.  Get fresh air. Get a fresh perspective.  Live a little…  No, live a lot!!

Tracy and I stopped watching television several years ago.  We stopped going to movies.  How many billions or trillions of hours have televisions stolen from mankind over the decades?
Go outside.
Find something.
Look at things.
Say Hi to someone.
Smile.
Go somewhere.
Eat something.
Try something new.

How can I tie this idea to my normal subject matter here?
I believe one of the biggest frauds perpetrated on the unsuspecting public is the idea that the study of scripture is to be left to the experts. Do nothing, but listen to others who did something.
In general, the church-going-public has surrendered the knowledge of the truth to someone else.
Instead of studying scripture, they go to a building and WATCH and LISTEN to someone else who has studied scripture. Or if people do study, they do so within the context of doctrine they have already learned from others.
Eternity is an especially valuable reward.
Do you trust your eternity to what some guy learned in college?
Did he learn the truth of scripture in college?
Or did he learn what other men think about scripture?
If you’ve read any of my blog posts, you’ll know what I think about that.  But my opinion doesn’t matter.

Jeremiah tells us that our entire religious system will get it WRONG.
Not a little bit WRONG, but COMPLETELY WRONG.
I’ve quoted this before, many times, but it is critical that we see this bit of scripture as a bright, screaming siren.  We need to realize the significance of this warning, and we need to realize it applies to us today. It is not speaking of something that happened in ancient times. Verses 14-15 set the time frame (has not happened yet), and verses 19-20 give us an earth shattering warning about what is to come:
Jeremiah 16:14-20
¹⁴ “Therefore, the days are quickly coming,” declares Yehova, “when it will no longer be said. ‘As Yehova lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.’ ¹⁵ Rather, ‘As Yehova lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had banished them.’ So I will bring them back into their land that I gave to their fathers.
¹⁶ “Behold, I will send for many fishers,” says Yehova, “and they will fish for them. After that, I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks. ¹⁷ For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity concealed from My eyes. ¹⁸ First I will repay them double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have profaned My land, and they have filled My possession with the carcasses of their vile things and their abominations.”
¹⁹ Yehova, my strength and my fortress,
My refuge in the day of affliction,
The Gentiles shall come to You
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Surely our fathers have inherited lies,
Worthlessness and unprofitable things.”
²⁰ Will a man make gods for himself,
Which are not gods?

If you do nothing else, take ownership of your eternity.
Do not leave it in the hands of others…
If you had a million dollars, would you leave it out in your front yard unguarded?
Would you treat it like it has no value?
Would you take for granted that it would still be there tomorrow?
In a week, in a year from now? Would it still be there?
Your eternity is much more valuable than money. It is priceless.
Do you take ownership of it?
Do you protect it and guard it?

Do Something.
Pick up your bible and read it.
Start at the front, as that is the only way to purge the lies of our ‘modern-religious-systems’ that Jeremiah speaks of.
My opinion does not matter ~~~ scripture says our doctrine is worthless and unprofitable. Disagree with me? Study it. Test it and see if there is any truth to what Jeremiah is saying above. 

And here is an interesting nugget of information about Casey Niestat.  He has hundreds if not thousands of videos.  I’ve watched only a handful of them.
In one that I saw, he was purchasing Challah bread, for an upcoming “proper Shabbat” as he put it. I don’t know much about Casey,  but there you go…