During accounting lecture today, my lecturer was talking a lot of nonsense, and so he spent the last few moments of the lecture rushing through as much material as he could to end on time. But in the midst of his nonsense, he commented "Never trust a man who says trust me." And the moment he said that, the first thing that could come to my mind was Jesus telling His followers to trust Him. Of course, the topic in which this comment was raised had nothing to do with Christ, or Christianity, it was on agency theory I think, and how managers had the tendency to alter financial reports for their personal benefit, or something along those lines. But this was what I was thinking about.

For a man, my lecturer, his age, about 50 plus, to draw the conclusion, never trust a man who says trust me, must have had a fair bit of life experience. Of course, you could argue that it was all said in the heat of the moment, and that if he knew the context in which I was thinking, he would most probably argue in a way, so that he would stay clear of all religious conflict. But the fact of the matter is when Judgement day comes, are we going to tell God that everything we said that offended Him, was all said in the heat of the moment? In a fit of anger? Will we find excuses to justify our actions, or will we accept the consequences of our actions?