He That is of God...

...heareth God's words (John 8.47, KJV). Christ to the unbelieving Jews. The second half of the sentence is: "Ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God." Christ was never one to hold back truth when it needed to be spoken, as it did here. His most direct comments were always made to those who were the most self-righteous; one assumes because others knew they were sinners, the legalists, not so much.

This is why we should always be evaluating our own theology and motives. Who knows that self-righteousness hasn't crept in when we weren't looking. Humility is the key. The humility to reexamine ourselves and ask, "have I wandered away from the truth?" "Am I more interested in my own theological scheme than I am in ferreting out the truth?" "Can I be wrong here?"

This lays a healthy foundation for, as Millard Erickson once put it, holding our theology with humility because we may be wrong, as the unbelieving Jews were wrong here.