I do hate the chicken part. It’s messy and yucky and I am driven to clean off every little piece that isn’t good meat.
So yesterday, I opened the container and started the process. And I was two-thirds of the way through when I realized “this is going really quickly today.” I was ripping bones apart and skinning the bird with no sense of ooginess. Then I stopped to consider why and I laughed out loud.
I just finished reading “The Hunger Games.” That little slip of a girl was efficiently killing, skinning and tearing apart rabbits, squirrels, and birds on a daily basis to stay alive. And that had worked its way into my brain.
And once again, I remembered Romans 12:2, Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
I’m not sure that we realize what we read, watch, listen to or text gets so deeply ingrained in our minds. It becomes a part of who we are. And if it is the world, we become more a part of the world.
Don’t misunderstand me. I loved “The Hunger Games” and I am running to the store to buy book two. I just believe though that I need to make sure the time I spend communicating with God and studying His Word is enough so that my mind is renewed by His purpose and will rather than conformed to the world.
A little TV, Facebook, Pandora? Absolutely! But not so much that my ears are stopped up when He calls my name.
