What are you watching?

Do you ever sit and think to yourself if what you are watching on TV or what your children are watching is truly appropriate?  I know I have.  Sometimes we use the television as a way to relax or settle our bodies down, but is what we are watching benefiting our lives or hurting it?  We should sit and analyze what we are truly watching.  “Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.”  (Proverbs 3:7- 8)

 

There are many shows, movies out there that share some type of violence, sexual content and/or vocal content that is not good for our spiritual lives.  It is not producing any seed, but actually placing harm into our life.  You might think that it’s minimal, but if you have nightmares of what you’ve watched or if it plays a role in your life and how you act, you should re-evaluate. 
 

As far as our children go, we have to be careful of what they are watching and the age level these shows or movies are targeting.  Are they really appropriate?  Can our child distinguish, at their age, between reality or fiction?  Have they watched too much TV for the day?  Children should not be watching TV shows that say ‘profanity’… words such as stupid, dumb, and so on.  Remember, they are at their learning stages and if they see it on a show they are most likely able to say the words because they have learned it.  They don’t know what’s right from wrong until it’s taught to them.  As well as, if you have children who are a bit older, 7ish…be careful with introducing shows that may have boyfriend concepts.  Our children are growing too fast these days and there are a lot of influences out there. Let’s try to keep them children and not have them learn from things in our household that they shouldn’t be learning at such a young age. 

 

We have control over what happens in our household so let’s take care of it. View what benefits our spiritual lives and will provide nourishment to it; not what will take from it. “They captured fortified cities and fertile land; they took possession of houses filled with all kinds of good things, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves and fruit trees in abundance. They ate to the full and were well-nourished; they reveled in your great goodness.” (Nehemiah 9:25)