Eventually what is in your heart will come out of your mouth. now there are folks that can 'play the game' for a while and talk the Christian life but they are not committed to it. But as time goes on the ability to talk the talk without walking the walk wears on you. Something will come out.
Now that doesn't mean that any time a Christian slips they are not striving to be to be a good Christian. But something that I have realized more and more as I grow older, what you put in your brain is what comes out most easily.
Those that know me, know that my preferred form of Christian/Gospel music is Southern Gospel. But until recently we didn't have a station here in the upstate so in the morning on my way to work, I had some options. 1) Country, 2) Contemporary Gospel, or 3) listening to CDs or 'my' music on my phone.
I loved option 3 but when doing that, I didn't get the weather updates or the traffic updates. That meant I might be late because of an accident that I could have avoided or I didn't take in the umbrella when rain was to rolling later that day.
I tried Country - I got weather and traffic updates, Bill & Beth were funny but what I found is that I was humming songs during the day that I didn't agree with the lyrics. So I went to contemporary, again it was my favorite but in the mornings they were putting good thoughts in my mind and the songs that stuck with me had a Bible base & I still got weather & traffic. So until March of this year when a SGM station opened in the upstate I stuck with contemporary.
What does this have to do with this Bible verse, you may ask. Well the heart and mind are very closely related, once we hear something it sticks, we may not realize it, with as hard as it can be to believe as our memories are at times fuzzy, really they do. What you put in is what comes out.
If you hear songs all day that curse or talk about conduct that does against the Bible, it erodes at the base of beliefs you may have just one sand at a time until you become immune to knowing what is wrong. They reach your heart. And the wickedness of the heart is what defiles us. Once enough 'stuff' has been put into your mind, without realizing it the devil can use it to make you question or to form 'your own opinions' of Biblical truths.
The heart is wicked, it will deceive you. It will pour wickedness from your mouth. The only cure is Jesus. Trust him to clean your heart. David prayed that God would create in him a clean heart. Is that our prayer today?
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