Be careful of what you let fly into your mind

Rev. Br. Kenneth Alamezie, BSS

Today’s world is one in which we are deeply beleaguered by intrigues of deviant characters, who are very unswerving, as if under oath, in their bid to actualizing their father’s bid, which is to lure people away from the one true God and to seal their hearts from recognizing what essentially is the reason of our individual existence in the world, and what it means to be human. For, to be human has more to it than merely eating, sleeping and waking, and existing almost aimlessly. I believe it involves dynamic participation in the work of God, our father, and in so doing becoming who God says we are.
Of course, it doesn’t matter our respective conditions, presently, in regard to social status and corporeal acquisition, when it involves what each of us should be able to contribute for developing one another and consequently the world around us. What matters is our mindset, how healthy it is, how well informed. For one’s outward appearance/ behavior reflects what program or information they’ve got running in their mind. It is said that true poverty is not the lack of cash, as it is poverty of the mind. They are truly poor who are psychologically lacking, period! That said suffice me to call up yet another bitter truth, which is: that none of us can ever grow past the way s/he thinks in their hearts. For as a man thinketh in his heart, so he is!
To transform a person’s world, there is need to firstly get their character transformed; and this cannot be achieved without first getting their mind transformed. That way their view of life would have been transformed, and their understanding of our reason of existence bettered. Thus, it implies that it is not what we take in as food that makes us who we are, or what we’d become; as it is the information we feed the mind with. Scripture presents it much clearer in these words: And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. I like the way this scripture puts it: by simple implication it means that one cannot be able to tell what is that good, acceptable, and perfect will of God for his or her life save they yield for a renewal of the mind. And we know how this could occur, don’t we? A rather systematic and practical process of decongesting the mind of all acquired misinformation, and consequent downloading of useful information to fill the vacuum, is the answer.
The kind of information we let fly into our minds will, no doubt, determine our view of life, what we’d become, and altogether our future.
Unfortunately, the Thief (that wicked and shrewd Old Serpent) knows more than a bit about this fact. Of course, his modus operandi is not hidden to keen eyes. The same way he was able to get Eve rebel against God, by programming into her mind some kind of seemingly destructive software—false information or you could say pleasing lies--that’s exactly how he’s been going about the same business today. Only that this time, given to years of experience, he has been able to come up with something far more sophisticated and pleasing to fleshly minds: the Entertainment Industry.
The world’s entertainment industry, more or less an organized body of deception, or better still-- the devil’s carefully knitted web for trapping gullible souls and a platform for undisguised devil worship, is really up serving this cause. Today, greater percentage of those in the trade has become themselves big time liars, just like the man they’re serving his cause; and collectively they’ve evidently turn out to be instrument of mass destruction. You can verify this claim if you like.
Both the music and movie industry, whether it be Hollywood, Nollywood, Bollywood and all other woods there are, as it is now, are really playing unmistakable and indescribable role in promoting devil worship and lukewarmness among Christians. The internet, which I have come to understand is in reality Enternet, that is, enter net, its kid brother--the social media, joined with the activities of deviant groups, debased minds of a sort who want evil to thrive and be adopted as a norm, but good treated as anathema, among several others are not left out here, as these have all become dangerous instruments with which the Liar is waging concerted war on humanity; thus grooming for himself potential firewood for hell fire. Pity enough, we are, as it seems, oblivious of this fact.
However, the upshot of what we’re saying is not hidden. Kids now find their way without restriction to the internet, where they enter and are trapped right into the net of pornography and other killing materials spread across that platform. There they poison their delicate minds, which ordinarily should be feeding on useful information that could help in developing them into great youths, and consequently wonderful future leaders. The youths are also not left out. On their part, it is either they are feeding the mind with scraps from the entertainment industry, which songs and movies are geared towards promoting immorality, nudity, criminality, and that bizarre attitude of mind that loathes hard work but craves for wealth, or they are roaming endlessly on the internet, perching from one porn site to another, hence feeding the mind with poisonous information capable of its obliteration. Thus the menace of crime in this era, as overwhelming as it has suddenly become, is simply mystifying and tear-jerking. And I can’t stop wondering what would become of this generation, let’s say, in the next 20-30 years coming.
The future of any country, society, or organization is solely dependent on the kind of youths there; and one can accurately predict what tomorrow would look like based on the crop of youths of today, once said a wise elder, during a gathering we had some three weeks back. I like to say this, when we take into consideration what sort of information that both the youths and lads of this era are busy storing up in their minds via varied communication platforms, we cannot but give heed to that prophetic advise given by the Master himself on that rocky Golgotha road: …cry instead for yourself and for your children…
Let it be known to us that it behooves on us as parents to curtail the excesses of our little ones as regards their activities on the internet. And, to the youths…well, I’ve got only one thing to say: just to remind us that no one eats his/her cake and still has it, impossible! So, it’s about time we started gathering good sticks for the rainy day; and forget it may rain pretty hard unlike what we have going on now. God bless you!
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