Today I will be talking about what we watch on our cell phones and the negative impact it has on our lives.
Just Like reading there is so much stuff out there that we can watch on our cells via YouTube, videos, tik-tok, and more. Do we tend to look at that cute kitty video? Do we tend to look at the latest challenge that is trending? Do we tend to look at what is trending or that funny video of someone falling? Or do we look tend to look at Godly messages, Godly Worship, or Godly things? I am not sure what you tend to do but I can say it would probably be the first ones, not the Godly messages, worship, and Godly things. Why is this it's because we like entertainment, drama, and stupid stuff that leads nowhere; or looking at this stuff to feel numb or to destress.
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 1 Corinthians 6:19. We tend to treat our bodies like a garbage dump looking at more and more mindless stuff. I can only speak to this because I've been there who hasn't. But what we watch takes headspace we could be using for other things. Having so much useless stuff in your brain will make it rot and you can become dumb and stupid.
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if anything, worthy of praise, think about these things. Philippians 4:8. What we watch, we will think and like I said take up useless headspace that can be used for other things. And as the verse says we are not to think of unholy things, only holy things.
I will be honest and say I watch YouTube a lot but what I watch is the Three Stooges, How It's Made, playing for change videos, or old or new comedians (not so much that it takes up my day but time). I am careful what I watch. I mention this to say that we often aren't careful with what we watch, we tend to watch what we want and think there will be no consequences. There are grave consequences in we watch if we watch the wrong thing, it can lead to our destruction and can have lasting effects on our lives. You may think that a cute cat video may bring you joy and if every time you feel down it will bring you joy, in the end, it will only bring you pain. Everything you watch that is unholy will only bring pain and destruction. Not to say that a how-to video, cooking videos, and such fits into that scenario. Those are neither holy nor unholy, they can only be a problem and become unholy if you watch those more than holy videos and take them to heart more.
What we watch matters and can have a negative impact on our lives if we do not keep it in check. So to close, What we watch on our phone, does it lead us closer to Jesus or Farther away from Jesus, or is neutral. (This goes for what I talked about yesterday, what we read can have neutral reading I mention this because I did not yesterday.
Do
not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind,
that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and
acceptable and perfect.
Philippians 4:6
All Bible verses taken from the NASB, ESV
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