Psalm 119

Has anyone been paying attention to all of the recalls coming from Chinese Manufacturers? Between the dog food, and Crafts made of GHB components its enough to make you wonder why we even do business with them. Sure we make and save money on the deal but where is that money going to come from once lead kills us off?
It's really got me more careful on what it is I buy in the store. But at the same time it gets me thinking about all the other things in life that could be poisoning me without my knowing.
The Chinese aren't suprised by the mistake, because of their Political choices they are losing money, and fast. It's cheaper to work this way, and lead is like cake to get pass customs, in fact I think they recognize cake way easier then they find lead made cups. They know its rubbish yet they feed it to us, in worship of the almighty buck.
The things we allow to occupy our time can be so much like this example. It's friday and there is nothing to do, so we reach for the remote, some check the news, or the ball game, most settle on a movie or sitcom. Or for those of a more bookish nature its a magazine or novel. When was the last time someone stopped to check the content of their television show, or book for spiritual poison?
As saved children of God we cannot lose our salvation, but if you allow me to use the analogy we can be put into spiritual comas, we are in every way like a dead person except we are still breathing. Not alive enough to be of any good, yet not dead enough to collect the insurance money.
Sin can drive us into a level of inactivity if we allow it. And the quickest way to get into the spritual coma ward is to allow this junk into our bodies.
We are not dead, if God hadnt extended mercy then maybe we would need an hour's worth of inuendo to bring happiness into our lives. But His hand has already reached out, there is no excuse for us to be watching or reading trash. If you were to take poison and give half to a living guy and the other half to the dead guy, its not going to kill the dead guy, it'll just make the living guy closer to the latter.
Most if not all the people who have become sick or dead, did not realize that the product they purchased was poison. But as Christians we do not have this excuse, God outlines whats poison and whats not, its common sense.
And of course there is the age old argument of there being nothing else to watch, there are no conservative Baptist channels in the Direct Tv package. Would you keep a cup made of lead based material just because it was your last one? Would you let your kids drink from it? Fortunately for us we make cups here in America too. Buy your hometown brand of entertainment, and by hometown I mean Heaven. The ball game is great, we need the news from time to time, But something about rushing home to watch "Desperate Housewives" just isnt right. Stick with the stuff that reminds you of Home, God's music, His word, and His people.
Lets return to the Book, the precious words we hung to as we prayed that prayer where God saved us. Love those things that love God, and we'll have no need for sinful entertainments.