Leaders Watch What Goes In:  Proverbs 15:14 “A wise person is hungry for knowledge, while the fool feeds on trash.”  We have all heard that “what goes in must come out.”  This is true with computers, food intake, foul language, and our minds.  Whatever we put into our minds will inevitably come out in our behavior, attitudes, words, personality, witness, and actions.  These will ultimately affect and impact our heart.  We can fill our minds with three things:  Truth of God, which is pure, inerrant nutritious and life-changing.  The Bible tells us in Matthew 4:4 “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”  This builds us up and gives us the strength and mindset to focus and live on that which honors God.  Poison, such as gossip, sarcasm, criticism, drugs, fleshly desires, pornography, power, and selfishness.  These can fill our minds to the point that we ignore the truth, push it aside or even hit the delete button to remove it.  Stuffing, this can be either good or bad but it’s just trivia and irrelevant Facebook, internet, Google, sports or other stuffing that take the place of adding truth. 

Tomorrow is our weekly trash day and it’s my responsibility as husband to take the trash out each Tuesday morning.  I watch the garbage truck stop, open the back and take in whatever is placed for pickup.  I never cease to be amazed at how much trash we can accumulate in one week.  What if we didn’t throw out the trash each week and kept it in the house?  It would start smelling, leak on the floor, stink up the house and take up space needed for good things.  The source of this trash is us and the disposal of it is us also.  We have to make the decision of what to place in the trash and what should be kept as useful and needed.  There are times when we have gone through things in the house and examined what to throw away.  There are times when we look at what comes into our house and make the decision that we need to stop receiving it.  When was the last time that you took an inventory of what you are allowing to fill your mind?  Is it truth, poison, trash or stuffing?  Let it be truth!