We are naturally desirous of spending
time with the thing, animate or
inanimate, we love the most.
Honestly ask yourself then, do you spend more time
with the God of Heaven or the TV? How
could we, as professing Christians, waste
the free hours the Lord God has
graciously given us to serve Him by
spending countless hours with the filth of
the world coming from the television?
"Bad company corrupts good
character" (1 Cor. 15:33). Is there any
worse company than the smut of
Hollywood? Does the devil and our sinful
natures really need all that help to
distract us away from our goal and
purpose here in the natural, not to
mention causing us to think sinful
thoughts?
What will you do, if you make Heaven,
when you find out there's no TV? Know
why there will be no TV in Heaven?
Because it will be thrown into the fiery
furnace along with everything else that
causes sin (Matt. 13:41,42). By the way,
have you thought about what you will say
to the Holy One when you stand at the
Judgment and He asks you about the
thousand or more hours you wasted every
year in front of the TV? That's what it boils
down to if you watch 2.75 hours or more of
TV every day! Are you spending an equal
amount of time praying, fasting, witnessing,
studying your Bible and meditating in the
things of the Lord? Can't (or won't) do those
things, you say? Too busy, too tired, too
weak? The prophetess Anna was an old
woman, probably in her eighties, who served
God continually by fasting and praying (Lk.
2:36,37). Maybe you can't fast three days
straight, but anyone can fast for a couple of
hours, distribute salvation tracts or leave
them laying around where people can pick
them up, give to the poor, call on a sick or
old person, pray with someone, etc.
Be honest with yourself. If Jesus came to
your house to spend a day, would you be
ashamed and quickly change the channel,
or leave it off altogether for the time He
was there with you?
If this article is speaking to you, it's not too
late for you since you still have breath in
your body. You can repent, ask God to set
you free from the desire to please that old
sinful nature, and begin to use those hours to
store up for yourself treasure in Heaven, as
commanded by Jesus (Matt. 6:20)! You can't
change what you've done in the past, but you
can improve your future! What's really
important is, how you finish your race (1
Cor. 9:24).
Paul was writing to Christians when he said,
"Finally, brothers, whatever is true,
whatever is noble, whatever is right,
whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,
whatever is admirable -- if anything is
excellent or praiseworthy -- think about such
things" (Phil. 4:8). You won't often, if ever,
find these things on secular TV.
Remember that it is a fundamental, basic
truth that where our minds are set, our
behavior (or lives) will follow.
Romans 8:5,6
read:
"Those who live according to the sinful
nature have their minds set on what that
nature desires; but those who live in
accordance with the Spirit have their minds
set on what the Spirit desires. The mind of
sinful man is death, but the mind controlled
by the Spirit is life and peace."
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