Remember the acronym GIGO adapted from the computer programming industry. It stands for Garbage Input Garbage Output: meaning that you can only get out of a computer what has been programmed in to it. The same principle applies to our minds. Allow garbage in – such as TV violence, pornography, vile language or mixing with questionable company etc. – and life will produce the corresponding results. Garbage input, garbage output. Some people brush this aside saying to themselves ‘what I watch or who I associate with doesn’t affect me’ but think of it like this: Your mind is like a sponge. If you knocked over a glass of sour milk and you used a sponge to mop it up, what would happen afterwards if then you squeezed the sponge? Would you get fresh cream from it or would you get sour milk?

Remember the acronym GIGO adapted from the computer programming industry. It stands for Garbage Input Garbage Output: meaning that you can only get out of a computer what has been programmed in to it. The same principle applies to our minds. Allow garbage in – such as TV violence, pornography, vile language or mixing with questionable company etc. – and life will produce the corresponding results. Garbage input, garbage output. Some people brush this aside saying to themselves ‘what I watch or who I associate with doesn’t affect me’ but think of it like this: Your mind is like a sponge. If you knocked over a glass of sour milk and you used a sponge to mop it up, what would happen afterwards if then you squeezed the sponge? Would you get fresh cream from it or would you get sour milk?