Jesse Jackson said some time ago that we sometimes allow our children to “eat junk and to watch junk and listen to junk and to play with junk and to talk junk, and then we wonder why they grow up to be social junkies.” To that I would add that we sometimes allow ourselves as well as our children to think junk. If we are continually focusing on junk in every area of our lives, our lives will soon be nothing more than junk. The Bible says, “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” Jesus said that out of the heart (meaning out of the thought process) are the issues of life. Whatever you continue to think about and to focus on, eventually you will become.
Albert Einstein once said, “If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.” If we were more concerned about our thoughts than the way we appear to other people, our whole lives would be different.