Get your ticket...

I've been a little disgruntled the past day or so over losing one of my blogs after spending quite a while of thought and writing put into it. I even woke up yesterday morning with a pit in my stomach because of it. After giving the loss and the initial frustration over to God I can honestly say I feel completely better about it and am up for writing a new one.
I've always enjoyed watching scary movies and became very addicted to a specific series of them. It was as if there was a gap I was trying to fill by getting a dangerous scary high from watching them, but all I was doing was filling my mind and heart with gore and foul language. The next movie of this series came out yesterday and I've always been THE FIRST IN LINE to see it when it comes out but this time around I wasn't feeling as anxious to watch it yet at the same time I was still battling whether or not I was going to go see it. I have battled this for quite a while now. I even threw out a bunch of my scary movies 6 months ago and then i accumulated two or three more since then. In my devotions this morning I read Romans 16:18-20 and it states, "For such people are not serving our Lord christ, but their own appetites. by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people. Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I am full of joy over you; but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil." THIS HIT A NAIL OVER MY HEAD because How am I to be innocent about what is evil if I am filling my brain with it and paying money to do so??? I feel I was filling my own appetite just as this verse says and everyone has heard about my obedience and God is full of joy over me, why would I want to go ruin that??? For you it might be something else that is hindering you from allowing God to be joyful over you or you may be making decisions that are evil in God's eyes concerning something completely different. We know we should be exercising our bodies and putting healthy foods into them so shouldn't we also be doing the same for our minds??? If we let our intellect fade and numb our minds with useless things, that is what will come out of us in the form of words, ideas, or actions. And this is so true for me because when I watch a horror film I end up not only being afraid later when it's dark in the house but my mind goes back to the gore and terrible sinful scenarios and replays them until I am in a worry in my mind over 'what if this happens to me?' And then I begin to doubt God's protection and I begin to dwell on the "rush" of the sensation the movie made me FEEL....but, we are not to be making decisions based nearly upon feelings but also upon God's word and what we KNOW he is speaking to us about. I had been in prayer about this movie for a short while now and I am greatful to say that I do not need to go see this film to have my gap filled. He is slowly filling in my crevices and holes with HIM and His word and I am blessed by this!
Something I too can cling on to is Phillipians 4:7 "And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus."
Perhaps I will go make my own movie now and finally get rid of the rest of the ones that were keeping my mind stuck in a place it ought not to be! Tickets go on sale next weekend...