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What Do You Think?
Conduct your own survey.
Tally up what
you are receiving - what your children are receiving.
Website stats: Every morning
we check the statistics on this website to see
how many times each page was viewed the previous day. From this
we can determine which articles are of greatest
interest. The other morning I powered up my computer only to find that no
stats had been calculated during the night. The lack of information
frustrated me and finally, about midday, I emailed the hosting company and
they quickly fixed the problem.
TV's stats: The incident caused me to wonder,
though, what would happen if I monitored other areas of my life as closely
as I did my website stats?
What if I monitored, for example, how many times during an hour of
television viewing, I received the notion that sickness and disease were
imminent?
Exactly what was
I feeding my mind, anyway? I decided to find out.
The results: The next evening I tallied the
commercials during an hour of prime time viewing. To my surprise, in
addition to the heartburn, skin rash, medicate-your-child,
flu-is-coming-and-you-are-going-to-get-it dialogue, there was a barrage of
coming attractions filled with terror, violence, and sexual promiscuity. I
was filling my mind with 60-second snippets of mayhem and perversion, of
fear and death! All things contrary to God’s promises. All things contrary
to His Word.
Each evening the life of God was being siphoned out of me and replaced by
all things negative. Is
it time to preserve our souls by allowing them
to meditate on good things?
Conduct your own survey. Tally up what you are
receiving - what your children are receiving. What do you think?
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true,
whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever
things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of
good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on
these things.” Philippians, Chapter 4: Verse
8
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