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So easy to get things wrong

Yesterday I had my first proper Russian lesson, face to face with a teacher.  Previous to that I have been learning on the internet.  I discovered that although I had been working very hard at learning for nearly a  year now, there were many times when I had simply not got the pronunciation right.  The problem is that some letters we don't know in English, but more confusing some letters look like ours and are pronounced differently.  No matter how hard you try it is difficult to get it right,  but when you have a teacher they can correct you and put you on the right road.
  In all sorts of things in life it is likely that we will get the wrong message and go astray.  We need a teacher to help us.  There are many charlatans out there who would lead us further astray.  There is only one we can trust and that is Jesus.  To find out about Him we need to read our Bibles and find someone we can trust to help us understand it, but mostly to trust only Jesus.

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