Reconditioning

Something nailed me in the face today. I felt God gave it to me for our MC group and He did but it was just as much for me. That is the need for our minds to be reconditioned. I fully believe that we diagnose way to many kids with ADD and ADHD that don’t really have it. The problem is that media has conditioned their minds to only pay attention for 7-10 minutes at a time. Commercial breaks are every 7-10 minutes and cartoons and TV shows are what raise America. All of our communication is visual. We watch movies, browse the web, and text message. Everything coming in is media driven and visual. Then we come and sit in a place to connect with God and wait for Him to show up. Without our movement and action nothing will happen. God is not like a good movie, meaning his purpose is not to entertain us. If we truly want to connect with God we need to understand a couple things. First, our minds have been conditioned to have a completely different type of communication then the type that we will have with God. satan has done a very good job at conditioning the minds of America and our world through the media. He doesn’t even have to get us to watch or listen to bad things he just needed to get us dependent on movies, music, and the TV so that we want to spend all of our time in these arenas. I mean look at where we are at, as soon as our prayer time gets boring we pop in a Hillsong CD and all of sudden God’s presence is there? I wonder if its just that our mind is conditioned to be entertained with loud noise and good music. It begs me to ask the question if it is really even God’s presence at all in that moment or our emotions. All of that to say this, we must understand that to authentically connect with God we will have to recondition our minds and what they are dependent on. God is not here for our entertainment. He is hear for our soul. This also means that we need to drastically restrict our media intake levels. Again I am not just speaking of the bad stuff I am talking about everything that has conditioned our mind to be so dependent on visual stimulation to feel enjoyment. Without restricting this area of our lives we will continue to allow it to condition our minds without us every realizing it and thus making it virtually impossible to ever truly connect with God. satan knew how to counteract the ability to connect with God, just make us dependent on an opposing type of communication. So now much of our Christian church today is filled with empty, yet entertained people wondering why it doesn't really seem real. Second, do something. Now that you see what is preventing you either act or remain the same.

Cole