So groovy is a bad thing?
One of my prized possessions as a child came in a blue, hard plastic case, and was a hand-me-down from my brother. It was (gasp!) a record player. I didn’t have all that many albums, but the ones I did I nearly wore out.
Through some magic, music gets recorded onto the grooves of the vinyl, and you had to be very, very careful when you picked the needle up in the middle of a song, lest you put a scratch in the record. Forevermore, when the needle hit that spot, your song would skip: a fate worse than death for your favorite album.
If you had an album you really didn’t care about, you could make a scratch that was really, really long – in theory, across the whole surface of one side, if you wanted. As the record spun, the needle would glide right across to the middle, and you would hear the soft thwup, thwup, thwup that meant it was done.
Somehow, through my life experience, I’ve got things recorded onto my vinyl that aren’t good… They speak to my insecurities, and when the power gets turned on, I hear the same old hits that have been playing all my life. I know them so well that I can sing along.
The process of changing the way I think because of Christ’s work in me allows me to make little scratches on my record; now I can skip the part where I’m not worthwhile. Bigger scratches, and I’ll miss the follow up hit: I mess up everything I try.
It starts with taking the little thoughts captive and asking God to speak His truth to me. Eventually, with prayer and effort, I’ll make that scratch across the whole record and I won’t have to listen to it ever again.
If you were a cassette tape you could just record over the stuff you don't want to hear! LOL Unfortunately, our lives are not that simple but more fragile like a delicate vinyl record!
ReplyDeleteGod make me stronger through your word and prayer so that I can protect my heart from things that are harmful