We are living in what is termed, “The Age of Information”. Everything is available to us with the slightest effort. News, social media, entertainment – anything we want or need to know is just a touch away.
We are also living in what is termed, “The Last Days”. The days of wickedness before the coming of the Lord. The spirit of antichrist is constantly trying to suppress the truth of God and of Christ Jesus and if he can’t suppress it, he tries to twist it to the ultimate peril of those who listen.
I have become strangely aware how this Information Age has caused us to become dull in our thinking. We are continuously being fed information – being told what and how to think. If we are unguarded, we will find that the spirit of this age is doing all our thinking for us. That happens when we lazily accept everything that comes to us virtually, without using our renewed minds to analyze it to be right or wrong by the word of God.
I have literally had to say to myself, “Think, Holly!” because we have been so conditioned to be told what to think instead of thinking for ourselves. This becomes particularly dangerous to our souls when what is being told to us is contrary to what we know to be true in the scriptures.
Take for example, entertainment/movies; what will we not accept if it entertains us? Watching movies can really be a mindless activity where we just “veg” and allow the movie to take us in. I truly believe this is an area where we need to set up our guards vigilantly. What have we been thoughtlessly consuming? Sensuality, murder, blasphemy, the occult? Do we not understand that all of these things, we are to flee? Why then are we being entertained by them? What about comedy? Are we thinking about what is being said before we join in laughter? Do we find ourselves carelessly accepting what we laugh about? I think we are on extremely dangerous ground with this.
I am of the persuasion that media is being used – in all its various forms – to cause us to become dull to things we know, from God’s word, are wrong. I believe this is happening so that when the time comes for those who are on the earth to receive the mark of the beast, they will do so because (a) they are no longer thinking for themselves; (b) they have become dull to the wickedness of sin; and (c) they have chosen the path of least resistance.
Don’t be mindless -Think!
Holly Sands lives in South Carolina at the foothills of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains with her loving husband, Shane, and idiot cat, Mister Bojangles. She has been blessed to travel both nationally and internationally with her husband, sharing the glorious gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Holly is co-host of the weekly podcast, “That They May All Be One“. New episodes can be heard every Tuesday on your favorite podcast app.