Scrolling down my Facebook newsfeed the other day, I saw an article which quite startled me. It described a special steam treatment to cleanse and detoxify your scalp and hair! Do you mean to tell me that I've been walking around all my life with a toxic scalp? Horrors!
That reminded me how much I see on social media about "cleanses". People do master cleanses, juice cleanses, vegan cleanses - all in an effort to rid their bodies of impurities. The world is trying to purify what can be seen, while what cannot be seen is filthy.
Why are we so concerned about removing all the toxins from our bodies and not at all engaged in blocking all the negative messages we are taking into our mind, soul, and spirit?
My pastor preached this morning about how we need to watch who we allow to speak into our lives. There are people who will give you permission to back off from the things of God - to stop trusting and following Him. They will insist that you don't have to do "all that" to be right with God. Then there are the media messages which tell you that the Bible is outdated, that Christianity is mean-spirited and not inclusive, that a real, approachable God is a myth that weak-minded people rely on to get by in life.
If you allow all those messages to bombard your mind, instead of filling it with God's word, your thinking will be toxic, which is much more dangerous to your heart than the environmental poisons of the world.
Just as you can't avoid all the toxins in the world affecting your body, you can't totally block all the contamination that comes to your ears from the enemy through media, friends, family or acquaintances. By the same token though, you wouldn't deliberately ingest a poison into your body and you shouldn't willingly listen to the voices that attempt to halt your journey to what God has promised.
The Bible is full of warnings about listening to fools and encouragements to listen to wise counsel. God knows that what we hear helps form who we are and what we do in Him.
Romans 10:17 says, "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Let's let that pure voice be the only one that influences us.
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