What are you listening to?

Yesterday, Joshlynn went around the house singing a song. If you are a parent you have heard this song. “We’re going on a trip in our favorite rocket ship, zooming through the sky, Little Einsteins…” It is the theme song to Little Einsteins, a children’s cartoon on the Disney channel. It was so cute. She was singing the words as well as a 2 year old can, and what great tone and pitch. The problem was, she sang it over and over and over and over and over! She was playing on her scooter and singing it, she was pushing her baby dolls and singing it, she was “reading” a book and singing it. She had repeated this song so much, she knew it by heart. Could you imagine what might happen if she watched some of the other cartoons that are a little more teenage appropriate, or even older? What if she was sitting in there and liked the beat of a song on the radio? Do you think that she could remember the songs? The more we as humans repeat things and watch the same things over and over again, the better we remember them.

This is why it is so important to fill their minds with Godly things and less junk. This is why it is important for parents to keep track of what goes in their children’s heads and hearts.

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.”
Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Why is it so important for the Israelites to impress the commands on their children, talk about them all the time, and tie them on doors and foreheads? The more something is repeated and taught to a child and an adult, the better they remember. I mentioned some about this in yesterday’s devotional. We were created to know and worship our God with an all-consuming passion. Are we living that way? Are his commandments repeated in our hearts to the point where we can’t help but live for him daily?

What are you repeating in your life? What are you watching? What are you listening to? What are you doing so much that you could repeat that event or song or line from a movie? It is a sad day when we know more lines from movies than we know scripture. I know I do not want that to be said about my family.

Again, what is overflowing from our lives?

Jason