What Defiles A Man?
Mark 7:15; NIV:Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.
To defile simply means to make impure, dirty or pollute.
The two door ways through which stuffs whether Positive or negative get into our minds are our eyes and ears. Whatever passes through our eyes and ears into our minds influence what our minds process and what our minds process influence our words, emotions and actions. But whatever enters into us through the two channels mentioned above has no influence over us until it is processed by our minds.
The mind doesn't function like a computer that has no say over whatever is fed to it. The mind has utmost control over whatever is feed to it. The mind applies two methods in tackling every data that is feed to it. It can either choose to discard it or process it. And it is only information that the mind chooses to process that can have influence on the man.
This means that anything that enters the mind that the mind can discard immediately has no effect on the man. We may not be able to control whatever passes through our eyes and ears into our minds, but we can control what passes through our minds. Anything that passes through the mind and Defiles the mind, has defiled the whole man because the mind is the central control system of the man.
Our words, actions and emotions are controlled by our minds. Thus, anything that can't get to your mind, can hardly get to you. This is why we were admonished in the book of Proverbs 4:23 to guide our hearts above everything else because everything we do flows from it. Therefore, any thought that cannot take over your mind, cannot take over you.
We can now see clearly that it is not what goes into us that Defiles us but what comes out of us. Though we still have to be very careful of the type of things that we allow into our minds because our minds may not be able to resist for too long should we continue to allow garbage into it on a daily basis. Whatever you feed your mind often is what it will process. So we have to feed our minds with stuffs capable of building us up once processed.
Don't forget that you have control over what you feed your mind and what your mind processes. And it is what your mind processes that determines what comes out of you. So guide your heart with all deligence if you don't want to be defiled by what comes out of you.
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