Cheap & Nasty

Philippians 4:8

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

I love bargains, and I have skills at finding great stuff at super low prices. It’s a gift. For example a whole lot of cool earrings from Mr Price for 20 bucks. But as I’ve been wearing them, they’ve started to infect my ear lobes. Not great. So what I do is I wear the cheap ones for a few days, then take a break and wear silver ones until my ear feels better, go back to the cheap ones, and the cycle goes on.

We tend to do the same thing with our minds. We put stuff into our minds, not necessarily bad stuff; it’s cheap and easy and looks pretty cool, but it’s not pure silver and that starts to infect us. We put up with it until the infection gets too much, then we go back to the pure stuff, back to the Lord and ask Him to heal us. He does. Then it’s back to Mr Price for more cheap stuff.

But God calls us to live in His purity and holiness always; to wear His treasures, not cheap, rubbish stuff. He calls us to think on Him and His goodness, not on things that will infect us and bring pain. Turn your eyes upon Jesus; look full in His wonderful face and the things of the world will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.