Life involves a battle for your mind. If you can keep your mind clean, then you will win the battle. You can control your thoughts and you can certainly control what you take into your mind each day. You must therefore make sure that you are disciplining your thoughts. If your imagination is running away with something it shouldn’t be entertaining, then stop. It’s your choice. If you are contaminating your mind with negative influences, then stop immersing yourself in these things. They will ruin your life. Make sure that your intake of good things, of truth, wisdom and beauty, outweighs everything else. The human heart is a sensitive thing so don’t underestimate the effect of what you watch for hours and hours on television. Immersing yourself in fictitious stories, particularly those of ungodly people, will disorient your desires and even your sense of reality. I call it ‘narrative dysphoria’. Don’t live in other people’s artificial adventures. Live your own adventure in God. You might justify a certain amount of junk-food-media to yourself, but be careful, because we easily fall into a kind of ‘entertainment addiction’. This is when the mind craves easy stimulation, usually of an unhealthy nature. If you want to remain sensitive to the reality of God, you must keep your mind disciplined and your heart sensitive and rightly oriented. Filling your mind with media-junk-food only serves to clog your spiritual senses with worldly grime. How serious are you prepared to be about the renewal of your mind?
Assess your weekly intake. What needs to change?
Read Romans 12:2 along with Philippians 4:8
