Changing the station
Changing the stationThis lovely old radio is one I’ve managed to get working and keep working for years. It’s older than I am but I must say not by much.If you take a really close look you may notice that the key pressed today is “phono”. That's because I have a very modern ipad hooked up to it that way. The music is good but not nearly as old as the radio. The clash of technology makes this ipad / radio less than ideal but nostalgically functional. The radio has no say in what it plays. To it, it's all the same, a series of electromagnetic waveforms it turns into sound. The radio is simply a passive deliverer of content. “Back in the day” I’m sure the content was very different. I can’t go back and hear what was being broadcast back in the 50’s and 60’s, most of that content wasn't recorded but would have been very different to any available today. Unlike the radio (which strictly speaking at this moment isn’t functioning as a radio so much as an amplifier and speaker for a digital device), we DO have some control of what comes out of us.There are some similarities though. If I send horrible content to the radio, horrible content comes out of the speaker. Fill your mind with junk and junk is highly likely to come out of you… because that's what’s in there!The radio has no memory, no brain. It just passes whatever it receives through its circuits to the speaker, and that's what those around hear.Our minds transform input into thought and thought into opinion and then to output. Changing content on the radio is easy, I just have to press another key or tune the dial to another station. Our minds are a little harder to change though.The bible has something to say about this in Romans 12:2. There, Paul instructs is to “be transformed by the renewing of your mind”.I’ve often mulled this verse but clearly Paul is letting us know that “renewing” is possible. Changing the station as it were.Guard your mind. Fill it with things that you want to come out of your mouth.Test and approve each piece of input so that you change the way you think.
