100 Days with Jesus -- What Do We Implant in our Minds, Thoughts and Memories?

Day 43


When we came home from church the other night, I had good intentions of doing some reading and studying. But after I got home, I realized that it had been a hectic day, my brain was tired and I didn’t want to think. So I sat down with Lanny in front of the TV and he turned it to an old musical western made in the mid l940’s called ‘The Harvey Girls’ starring Judy Garland.

The movie was originally made in black and white and had been colorized at some point since then. The color looked strange and the movie plot was simple and predictable, pretty corny actually. The production itself was so uncomplicated that I had forgotten how simple movies used to look with the fake movie sets. There was a lot missing in the movie. Let’s see – there were no special effects and it wasn’t in HD but there was also no foul language, no graphic bloodshed or death, no torture or mutilation of anyone or anything. There were no sexually explicit scenes or nudity and at no point was the Lord’s name taken in vain. When the movie was over, I actually felt good! I had a smile on my face and I went to bed and slept like a baby. I had no horribly graphic scenes that were forever implanted into my memory, only to come back at some point in my dreams. I had not watched anything that I knew would not help me to grow in my walk with God and I had no sense of uneasiness or regret about my time spent. I had spent time with my husband, watching a movie that was positive and relaxing. Actually, it was so relaxing that Lanny slept through most of it. He doesn’t get into musicals.

As I reflected on this later, I thought about movies, video games and TV shows today and what is being implanted into our minds and more frightening, what is being implanted into the minds of children. It made me realize the impact of what we put in front of us and them. Psalm 139:23 says ‘Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts.’ Our thoughts are so powerful and what is implanted into our memories determines the decisions that we will make. My desire is to keep things of God in my thoughts and hope that in time, they will begin to replace the thoughts and memories that need to be erased.