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Everything that we watch, literally every single thing, is going to have an effect on our life.
Whatever we allow into our eye holes is going to seep into our soul and into our heart.
And what does the Bible say?
That to guard our heart because everything that we do will flow from it.
So, if we are watching materials that are encouraging and trying to elicit sin out of us, then that's going to put that within our heart.
Is the content that you're watching trying to make you lust? That's poison.
Is the content that you're watching trying to make you angry and to hate your fellow man? That is poison.
So on and so forth, pick anything. Is this trying to make you prideful? That is poison.
This can count for LA, video games, TV shows, movies, and especially content that we see online because a lot of people are being used by Satan and by their own flesh they are driven to make stuff that are trying to feed the the desires of the flesh, the evil desires of the flesh because people keep wanting more of it.
People keep wanting to watch it. And we can't succumb to that.
We have to walk by the spirit.
And that's why it's so important to be in the word of God each and every single day and to monitor the content that we do watch for entertainment.
I personally think entertainment is great. I think video games, movies, TV shows, all that stuff, books are good things.
And I know sometimes they can people call them a waste of time, but I think that it's good especially in the age of doom scrolling.
Anything to keep you from doom scrolling.
If you spent all day, especially obviously as long as you meet your obligations and to your loved ones and to your own livelihood, but if you spend a few hours playing a video game, that is not time wasted.
That is time where you got to entertain yourself and it kept you away from doom scrolling on the internet.
But of course you have to make sure that that video game that you're playing isn't causing you to sin either.
So, an example of this is I was reading manga the other day and I loved the story.
I was so into it and then right at the very end of the first book there was a no-no scene.
I'll just say it was a no-no scene and it was relatively gratuitous.
And it made me just feel so icky. I was like, "Ugh, I want to know what happens in this story. It was just one scene, so maybe I can go ahead and buy it."
And then I was like, "No, I just I felt so much conviction in my spirit to just throw it away.
Throw it away. Don't read any more of it.
There is a ton of content out there that we can read that is wholesome, that will make us feel positive, that will make us want to be better people, or that can teach us life lessons, right?
That might show bad things, but not in a gratuitous way that is sinful, right?
But maybe you'll learn a lesson. Like, "Oh, here's Death Note for example.
Here's a lesson on on psychopathy and how that can mess with people."