Careful Little Eyes

“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.” Philippians 4:6

One evening I was about to sit down and watch some T.V. with my children, while scrolling through the mind scrambling number of movies on Netflix I kept running across movies that I had watched and liked in the past but thought they were inappropriate to watch in front of children. This thought hit me like a freight train. I didn’t want my kids to see the nudity and vile language in these movies for their own good but had been content to download all the blasphemy and hyper sexual content into my own mind. I recalled the above passage in Paul’s Letter to the Philippians and thought about the finite amount of time we get each day. While I was wrestling with how violent or vile our entertainment could be and not warp the kids the way I had been warped I had missed the point entirely. We should fill our time with what is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, and admirable. I should be searching out things that are excellent and praiseworthy. If I would not show it to my children or listen to it with my Pastor then I probably should not be consuming it. But that’s just a guideline, in reality we should be only imbibing things that improve or inspire us. We as Christians shouldn’t have enough time to waste. We should be reaching the lost or preparing to do so.