You’re a sponge.
You’ve have been a sponge since the day you were born.
We’ve all heard the adage you are what you eat. The real matter of fact is you are what you absorb intellectually and spiritually.
It’s true, if you don’t eat healthy it will catch up with you and your body will start to remind you of that as life goes along.
What you put into your mind on the other hand is how you run your life. We have a tendency to spend our time doing what’s most important to us. It is a direct reflection of who we are.
If you don’t like the opera are you going to spend much time at the opera? Probably not. Could we then call you an opera enthusiast? Probably not.
You are what you feed your body. Are you watching shows on TV that break all Ten Commandments, but then not taking any time to watch godly programming? What are we feeding ourselves?
Are we listening to the secular radio? Have you heard the words to songs? I have to ask the question because the words are absolute darkness. Are you listening to talk radio? All of it may be entertaining, but it isn’t spiritually healthy.
Matthew 6:22-23 – 22“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. 23But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
I used to listen to almost all secular music. Usually the older stuff as the newer didn’t do much for me. My Wife only listened to the Christian radio station. She was feeding herself with the word of God. When the music came on she was listening to someone else singing praises to the Lord. Guess what? When she started singing along with them, who was she glorifying?
Jesus! God! The Holy Spirit!
Who and what are we singing about when we are listening to other stuff?
All my rowdy friends?
Margaritaville?
She’s buying what kind of stairway?
You are on a highway to where?
Most of us know all these songs that and the list goes on and on.
Guess what, you still going to like the beat of your old favorites. When they come on at a reception, your passing through and can’t find something else on your going to want to stop and listen.
Here’s my challenge to you. Start filling your spirit with good spiritual God loving stuff. Like His Word, Christian television, Christian music, etc. You are what you take in. Make the effort today. You will find yourself thinking more of Jesus. You will find yourself praising God automatically. You will find yourself leaning on God for help, healing, and your needs being met.
Instead of doing something and the song in head being Hells Bells or Welcome to the Jungle, it will start to become “I was made to love You” by Toby Mac. It will be “Blessed be the name of the Lord” by the Newsboys and Rebecca St. James.
When people start trying to tell you join them in doing things that are contradictory to what the Lord wants you to do, a voice from the Holy Spirit will go off in your head. Why, because you have been reading his word which is the Bible. If you’re not reading the Word and you don’t know it, you can’t.
Life is a walk. You don’t just stop everything 100 percent and start everything 100 on a moment’s notice.
My challenge to you is to start listening to more Christian television, more Christian music, and please if you know Jesus as your savior, please get into the Bible.
You’re a sponge. Every one of us is a sponge.