Dieting!

Your diet is not only what you eat.

• It’s what you watch, what you listen to, what you read, the people you have around.
• Be mindful of the things you put into your body emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

What you watch…

• Media shapes your mind, influences your heart, and reflects your relationship with God.
• Scripture advises guarding your thoughts and focusing on things that are pure, lovely, and of good report.
• Proverbs 4:23 teaches to “guard your heart about all else, for it determines the course of your life.”
• What you consume visually and audibly saturates you thoughts, eventually shaping your desires and actions.

What you listen to…

• This profoundly shapes your mind, emotions, and spiritual focus
• What you listen to regularly acts as an “audio diet,” determine how you connect with god and how your thoughts and desires are influenced.
• Heart and mind influence: because music is deeply emotional, it shapes your worldview. Listening to uplifting, God-centered music encourages peace, comfort, and a closer walk with Jesus. Music that glorifies anger, violence, or immorality can negatively impact your thoughts and actions.

What you read…

• Books shape your worldview, influences your moral compass, and feed your mind and spirit.
• In Philippians 4:8 we are instructed to focus on whatever is true, noble, and pure. The literature we consume either builds our faith or distracts from it.
• Guard your mind. The stories, books, media posts that we read, we absorb shaping how we think. Reading books that glorify values contrary to scripture can dull your spiritual discernment and distract our from your walk with God.

The people you have around…

• Bad company can corrupt good morals. And most of the time you don’t relive its happening until you’ve already slipped into the habits of those around you.
• Proverbs 27:17, “Iron sharpens Iron, and one man sharpens another.”

This post sits with me deeply, if you have been reading from the start of when I have posted you’ll know how I came to see that the music I was listening to, the books I was reading, the people in my life, where majorly playing a role in my moods, my way of looking at life. I found my self chasing flesh and not spirit. Looking back making the choice to cut the things out, to change what I was allowing into my life has changed my life for the better.

Start small, start somewhere and watch how your mind changes, how your outlook changes, your mood, your attitude.

It’s a growing process, it’s a learning process, but it’s the process to finding the freedom God has for us.