No More Filing Cabinets!

Last night at dinner we were talking about our day and my son, Seth, asked what something meant. (I won't mention what that was because it was a little inappropriate, but I was glad he asked instead of just say it) Anyway, we told him the meaning and that it was not a nice comment to make. His answer to our explaination was funny at the time, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized it's exactly what we all do without even realizing it. He said this, "I should take a hose, put one end in my mouth and the other in my ear, tell myself what it means and not to say it, then the little men in my brain can write it down and file it away!" We laughed because there is never any telling what is going to come out of that boy's mouth. But isn't it so true?

We tell ourselves things constantly or hear others tell us things that will help us, encourage us or make us better and more into the person God created us to be and what do we do with it? We let the 'little men' in our brains file it away! Why? Why don't we do something with it? Maybe it doesn't seem like that big of a deal, or we think we'll do something about it later. But we never get around to it. Let's use those thing we tell ourselves, that are true, or the things others tell us to change us. That's what I'm going to do! I'm going to let those 'little men' write those thing down, but I'm not going to let them file it away. I'm going to ponder it, believe it, and use to allow God to let it change me. No more filing cabinets for me!