Monday's Devotion

Here's today's devotion from Church camp:

“Recycling Your Mind”
by Jared Altic

In 2003, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock tried a risky experiment. Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s food for thirty days, breakfast, lunch and dinner, and his health began to deteriorate immediately. He gained as much as two pounds per day, began feeling depressed, and developed a long list of health problems. Twenty-one days into the experiment, one of his doctors told him to “stop now” to prevent permanent health problems but Spurlock continued his McDonald’s diet. At the end of the thirty days, the filmmaker had gained about 25 pounds which took him over a year to lose again.

It’s fairly obvious that if Morgan Spurlock had continued such an unhealthy diet he would have eventually killed himself. His “Super Sized” diet of fatty, unhealthy foods was so extreme that he might have done permanent damage to his body in just 30 days of bad behavior. Most remarkable was how it affected him emotionally, creating a drug-addiction kind of depression and dependency.

If unhealthy food can do this, what would an unhealthy diet of entertainment do? How much vulgar language and moral filth can we pipe directly into our brains before it begins to affect us?

Read Philippians 4:8. List the things God’s people should be thinking about.

Morgan Spurlock’s wife put him on a “detox diet” to help him get healthy again. Imagine how our lives would be different if we applied Phil. 4:8 to our thinking.

How would your friendships be different?

How would your attitude change?

Think about your intellectual junk food. What most interferes with your closeness to God?

Read Romans 12:2. Perhaps we don’t understand God and his purposes for our lives because our mind is still patterned after this world. How can God help us change this?

Pray for God’s guidance to renew our mind; to recover from the world’s sinful, rebellious, hurtful thinking.