Today’s 333 Devotional: “Input Determines Output”

Advertisers compete for our attention because once someone has our attention, through visual or audio stimuli, they can then attempt to direct us.

What we put into our minds is what’s going to come out in our lives. To say this in computer terminology, “Input determines Output.”

Solomon said, “As a person thinks in their heart, that is who they are.” (Proverbs 23:7)

So, we need to guard against any access Satan has to our minds. We need to be choosy in what we let in because once it gets in, it’s staying. Scientists say that our minds can store a hundred trillion facts, so we need to be picky about what goes in because, unlike computers, there is no delete key.

In Romans 12:2, Paul warns us not to be conformed to this world, but rather we need to be transformed by the renewing of our minds.

This word conformed are those pressures that occur externally that exert themselves producing a change, like in nature heat, cold, wind, and rain, conform the landscape, that is, changing the look of it.

When it comes to our minds, such pressures are found in what we watch and what we read. Therefore, we need to be careful with what we read in magazines and books, and what we watch on TV and the Internet, because they pressure us to be and do what they say, and not what God says.

The Bible says, “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.” (Galatians 6:7-8)

The problem we have today is that it’s hard to tell who a Christian is, not because the morality of the world has gotten better, but the morality of the church has fallen so low.

So, let’s keep our guard up.