Internet News Hounds Need an Intervention

O.K. all you internet news hounds who search for muck every day to fill your minds with disinformation, do I have to do an intervention?

Addiction to internet gossip and unprovable information is just as destructive as addictions to drugs and alcohol.

Perhaps even more destructive is the internet gossip because people can become clean from drugs and alcohol but when something enters the brain it is there permanently, shaping the way we process information.

Philippians 4:8

"8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is [a]lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, think about these things."

1 Corinthians 2:15-16 "…15 The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment. 16“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ."

We are not commanded to search out the filth to know it to expose it. We are told to think on the things of the Lord, know His Word and become more like Him. If we do this when evil waltzes in front of us we will know the truth and expose it, but that does not mean that we should go searching for it everywhere we can just to know it. Knowledge for its own sake is Gnosticism and worthless and even destructive.

As believers we ought to be saturating our minds with the Bible, seeking wisdom to be able to live out the life orchestrated by Christ as we love others through the sharing of the gospel and encouraging those who are born-again to walk in His Word.

The things of the world can over shadow the things of God when it becomes entertainment. Why would a born-again believer "enjoy" looking at evil on a daily basis? I cannot understand this, I love to think about Christ and His Word.

1 Corinthians 2:6-16 "6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.

8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9 However, as it is written:

“What no eye has seen,

what no ear has heard,

and what no human mind has conceived”[b]—

the things God has prepared for those who love him—

10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.

13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.

14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments,

16 for,

“Who has known the mind of the Lord

so as to instruct him?”

But we have the mind of Christ."

I don't worry about food or medical care.

Matthew 6:33-34 "…33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own."

Matthew 6:26 "“Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”

God has used the medical industry to save my life a number of times. Every time I came out better than before. There are problems in every walk of life, a doctor is not able to humanly know everything about our bodies like God does.

It's why the doctor's clinic is called a "practice" and we must be "patient" because doctors cannot know everything. They try, some are better than others, but overall their skills are good.

I am also not worried about the food because God blesses it. We eat what is available and trust God to allow it to nourish us.

We need to be grateful for what God has given us rather than expecting it to be perfect. When I go to the doctor I expect God to guide that doctor.

When I eat food I expect God to bless the food. When I need a doctor I expect God to guide him/her.

The earth is perishing because of the sin that is on it. We can expect things to get more difficult until the Lord takes us out.

We must turn our attention to the provision of Christ, not people or systems.

When we know the world is perishing we will not be shocked at all that is going on, it should drive us closer to God and more joyful about our homegoing.

Be grateful for what God has given us, He deserves it!!!!

Colossians 4:2

"devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.”

Stay Calm and Carry On!