Last Saturday was the opening day for college football. I was lying in the bed that afternoon after taking my Saturday afternoon nap and I realized I was watching a home improvement show instead of football. What is wrong with me? We’ll that is not what this post is about so we’ll talk about that later. I didn’t mention that I was woke up from my nap, my wife was actually watching a home improvement show and she had an idea of how we could rearrange our bedroom and she woke me up to tell me about it. After she presented her idea I just started watching the show without thinking about it.
My wife use to watch this show regularly and when she did my “to do” list was very long. She was always coming up with home improvement ideas from just rearranging our furniture, to those that required a hammer, nails and a saw. The past couple of months for some reason and I didn’t ask, she stopped watching it. I was enjoying the break (I guess it’s over she has started watching it again). What hit me though was that while she was watching it, home improvements were always on her mind all the time. When she stopped watching it I heard very little about home improvements.
That is what I want to talk about what we put in our minds through music, TV, conversations we have with our friends, thoughts we entertain etc. I didn’t realize what an effect the music I listened to had on me until a few years ago. An old song would come on and it would send my mind back it time and I would catch myself entraining thoughts I shouldn’t. I would be entertaining thoughts of its message on how I should handle a situation I was going through etc. TV shows have gotten to be something else. I’ve caught myself wanting my family to be like a TV family, I’ve caught myself getting truly mad at the officials of a sporting event. Conversations with old friends about the “good old days” bringing back thoughts I had no business thinking about.
I heard a old preacher talk one time about coming to church on Sunday to get his gas tank filled up, so he would be able to go out and face the devil during the week. Whiter we like it or not what listen to on the radio, watch on TV, the friends we hang out with effect our thoughts and effect what we are filling our tanks up with. I really do believe that the ole devil can and will use these to tempt us and try and lead us astray. The bible tells us in Colossians 3:1-3 since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. And in 1 Peter 1:13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled….. I guess my question is what are you regularly filling your tank up with? Have you thought about it, I didn’t realize what I was putting in mine through the radio till I stopped and took a look at it. Take some time this week and step back and see what you’re filling up with.
My wife use to watch this show regularly and when she did my “to do” list was very long. She was always coming up with home improvement ideas from just rearranging our furniture, to those that required a hammer, nails and a saw. The past couple of months for some reason and I didn’t ask, she stopped watching it. I was enjoying the break (I guess it’s over she has started watching it again). What hit me though was that while she was watching it, home improvements were always on her mind all the time. When she stopped watching it I heard very little about home improvements.
That is what I want to talk about what we put in our minds through music, TV, conversations we have with our friends, thoughts we entertain etc. I didn’t realize what an effect the music I listened to had on me until a few years ago. An old song would come on and it would send my mind back it time and I would catch myself entraining thoughts I shouldn’t. I would be entertaining thoughts of its message on how I should handle a situation I was going through etc. TV shows have gotten to be something else. I’ve caught myself wanting my family to be like a TV family, I’ve caught myself getting truly mad at the officials of a sporting event. Conversations with old friends about the “good old days” bringing back thoughts I had no business thinking about.
I heard a old preacher talk one time about coming to church on Sunday to get his gas tank filled up, so he would be able to go out and face the devil during the week. Whiter we like it or not what listen to on the radio, watch on TV, the friends we hang out with effect our thoughts and effect what we are filling our tanks up with. I really do believe that the ole devil can and will use these to tempt us and try and lead us astray. The bible tells us in Colossians 3:1-3 since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. And in 1 Peter 1:13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled….. I guess my question is what are you regularly filling your tank up with? Have you thought about it, I didn’t realize what I was putting in mine through the radio till I stopped and took a look at it. Take some time this week and step back and see what you’re filling up with.
