Contamination Of The Mind

Our minds are the battle ground in which many fights are won and lost. Not fights with others, but internal fights that we have when it comes to wrong and right. It is the one place the enemy can be attacking you and nobody around you can know a thing about it. A person can be struggling with a temptation or secret sins and be left dealing with it only in their mind. The enemy can convince us out of fear not to say a word to anyone about our struggles or rejection and condemnation could soon follow. So we just deal with it the best we can, and most of the time that means on our own. Exactly how the enemy would love for us to. But this is not God's plan or God's design. So how can we avoid this internal battle before it even begins...by protecting our minds and filtering all the things we allow to enter into it.
As I was processing this blog today God showed me a glass of water. And in this vision I could see how crystal clear it was. It didn't even appear to be tap water, but more like water poured fresh from a bottle. Crystal clear with no impurities to the naked eye. And then I saw this fresh glass of water get placed on a table outside. And God said "would you drink this?".My answer was, "sure, why wouldn't I? There's nothing wrong with it". Then I could see the glass again after it had sat outside for a couple of hours. The heat had gotten to it, the things floating in the air had started to land in it, and it has started to lose that "crystal clear" look. The vision then fast forwarded about 24 hours and now the glass of water had a lot of things floating in it, including some bugs that had made their way to it. It had a dingy look to it now and definitely did not seem like the same glass of water....but it was. And I heard God say again, "would you drink it now?". To which I answered, "no, it's very contaminated". But what God was showing me was that this indeed was the same glass of water. However the things it had been exposed to changed it. It was no longer considered pure. It was no longer the way it was created to be. It was no longer able to do what it was intended to do, be drank. And then God said this is exactly what you do to your minds when you expose them to things they should not be exposed to. You would be very foolish to think your mind is not affected by the things you allow to come into it, because it is!
We must be careful to the things we expose ourselves too. They can muddy up the mind and contaminate it with thoughts and images that rob it of the pureness that God wants it to have. And just like the glass of water, when we allow these things to begin to exist in there, our minds will not be used the way they were intended. The enemy knows this too. It is the very reason that he has slowly desensitized society the way he has. He is polluting our minds with anything and everything he can. It used to be somewhat avoidable by not going out to watch certain movies, or choosing to not listen to certain music. But anymore it's the commercials we see, the billboards we pass, the magazines we pick up. And it's not just a choice to not watch or read certain things, because through advertising alone we are still exposed. Anything and everything is being sold to use through the use of sex and lust and desire. We are simply bombarded with things that can contaminate our minds.
Sounds like nothing but bad news, I know, but it doesn't have to be. We just need to be safe and wise. We have to filter what we expose ourselves and our kids to. And we have to ask God to help us clear out the things we have been exposed to without choice. An on top of that, we have to fill our minds with things that will keep it pure. The most important thing being God's word!
At the end of the vision God showed me something beautiful about that glass of water. He showed me that by using the right processes the water could be refiltered and be made like new again. That it's purpose was not destroyed by the impurities, because they could be removed and the water could be made pure again. And this is the same process He has for each one of us. No matter your past, no matter what you have been a part of or exposed to, He can make you pure again. The blood of Jesus that was shed on the cross in the filter in which God uses to purify us. There is no other way and there is nothing more powerful. Don't let the enemy convince you that you are unusable! Those are lies that he wants you to believe. God can make you like new and you can use Godly wisdom to filter the things out of your life that will prevent future contamination of the mind.
God, thank You that You have an amazing recycle program. You can make all things new and You can restore anyone! Thank You for the gift of Jesus Christ that You gave to us so that we don't have to live in guilt and condemnation, but instead we can repent, turn from our ways, take on His righteousness and walk with You down a new path that You have laid out for us. Today I pray that light would pierce the darkness and that the lies people have bought into would be destroyed! Holy Spirit purify the contaminated minds and help us to use Your wisdom to filter and protect them. In Jesus name, Amen.