Mirrors of Consumption

Back in the ‘70’s & 80’s, there was a media blitz on nutrition encouraging people to eat a balanced meal consisting of the “four food groups”. The slogan for that campaign was, “You Are What You Eat”, which is actually quite impossible from a literal sense, is quite true in the sense that what a person ingests, directly effects physically that persons overall physical persona.

The same is true in regards to our other “intakes” or senses; what we see, hear, and touch. If we ingest a regular diet of song lyrics that are in opposition to God’s Word, it will augment how we think; if we watch movies or television that promotes un-Godly lifestyles, it will cause us to be tolerant to sin and wickedness. If make the person with un-Godly actions or lifestyle are biggest influence or closest friend, we then adopt the “different strokes for different folks” attitude, which is an attitude that “winks” at sin.

Our minds become spiritually corrupt, before we can realize it. We should fill our minds and hearts with the Word of God, which is the only sure defense, against sin. Psalm 119:11 says, “Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You.”

So in reality, we all are mirrors or reflections, of what we fill our minds with, what we hide in our hearts. Something to reflect on…

…brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.  Philippians 4:8