You Are What You Think
Eventually, my brother showed me how to right-click and select only the pictures I wanted to download. But before I learned, every time my husband or I took a picture, I downloaded everything from the camera's memory card (which could hold 400 photos) onto the computer.
Right now my screensaver is a slideshow of all the pictures saved on my computer. I have a lot in there, and it is interesting to see them on the screen. Sometimes we see the same picture quite often and others only once in a great while. Because it uses every picture I ever downloaded, we see duplicates, duds, blanks and some pretty awful photos.
I was watching them one day and thought about how the brain is sort of like this computer. Everything we put in it is stored in there. We can forget a lot, but our memory holds the information of every experience we have.
Christ stated, "Now when they bring you to the synagogues and magistrates and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answer, or what you should say. For the Holy Spirit will teach you in the very hour what you ought to say" (Luke 12:11-12). If we want Christ to be able to bring words to our lips, could it be we have to have put them in there first?
I often fret because I can't seem to remember scriptures readily. I know about where in the Bible certain statements are and can usually find many without a concordance, but I sure am not good at memorizing verses. And yet, how many times have I read the whole book?
How much have I studied passages and subjects? Is all that in my brain somewhere?
Can God bring it out if necessary?
Asking these questions to myself gives me renewed desire to put into the computer, that is, my brain, as much of God's Word as I can—and also to keep out as much of the duds and awful stuff as possible. No wonder Paul said in Philippians 4:8, "Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of a good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate[think]on these things."
I hope I learn to right-click on the things that go into my brain. UN