Mind control. It’s not just the stuff of grade B sci-fi movies. It’s a very real thing. Just spend some time on Facebook, Twitter or television news. Folks seem to be wandering around like mindless zombies. Repeating what they have heard and having no thoughts of their own. On Facebook folks keep posting pics and stories from four years ago as if they happened this morning. I wish Facebook had a “no politics” mode that would automatically hide anything about Hillary, Donald or Bernie. Talk about mind control.
Satan is very definitely in this mind control business. He wants us regretting yesterday and fearing tomorrow so we won’t be good for anything today. He wants us thinking about politics, bills, terrorism, taxes, flesh-eating bacteria and the antiChrist so we will give no thought to God. I suppose he’s pretty good at it, but we really make it pretty easy for him.
We Christians, who claim to be eternally secure, worry constantly about death and think every cough and tummy ache is cancer. We claim to be heavenly minded but can’t remember the last time we told someone about Jesus for fear of offense. We store up stuff where rust and rot reign and have empty heavenly accounts. We live in a world where, if advertisements mean anything, we all owe more than $10,000 in credit card debts, student loans or to the IRS, and we think one phone call will fix it all.
We think there is a pill to fix anything. I have planned to patent a board game in which the object is to match the name of a drug with the disease it’s suppose to cure or the side effects it may cause. Regrets, worries, and instant cures are the patterns of the world. Paul warns us not to fall into those patterns. “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will.” Romans 12:2.
The antidote for worldly mind control is knowing the mind of God There is only one way to know that, spend some time with HIm. In the Grade B sci-fi movies, tin foil helmets would prevent alien mind control. In life, we need to find ways to block out the worldly thought waves and hear from God. Silence and peace are precious commodities They are the roads to God control; the only way to battle mind control.
So when you find yourself thinking that a crude fool with a bad hair cut can make America Great Again or that having a woman in charge, no matter what woman, is the answer, or that Government can give us everything we want. It’s time to shake off mind control and spend some quiet time with God. When we find ourselves slipping into the patterns of this world, it’s time to give up mind control and get to mind renewal.
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