Philippians 4:8 "Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things."
Our culture is saturated with lies, disrespect, immorality, impurity, hatred, violence, bad news, laziness, and depression. It's in every single sit-com, on every nickelodeon cartoon, on every news media, on every magazine rack, on every movie, in every book. It seems like you can't get away from it. It's almost as if you cannot function without being infiltrated with a culture mind bomb.
The sad part is though, most of us don't really care. We've grown immune to the culture bombs. They've already done their work in our minds, and hardened our hearts, and we suck it in willingly every day we turn the tv on.
As people of God, we need to learn how to filter out the culture mind bombs from our life, and to "dwell" on the proper things. Unfortunately, this means a large sacrifice for most people; their favorite television shows, magazine articles, news outlets, movie genres.
We don't understand as much as Paul did the effect of what you place your mind on. And media has the magical ability of placing your mind on what it wants. Luckily, you have the ability to choose your media outlet: so choose it wisely, knowing that it forms the way you view the world, the way you think and feel, and the way you make decisions.
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