Brain Matters
"Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life." - Proverbs 4:23
Ready to brush up on human anatomy? What part of our brain stores memory? If you said the Hippocampus, you're correct. Studies have shown that once information is loaded into our hippocampus, it's almost impossible to erase. In a sense, our brains are the most sophisticated computer systems on the planet. The last I heard, no company has created a computer with unlimited hard drive memory.
Today's laptops have over 600 gigabytes of storage space! But even the most sophisticated computer we have at our fingertips pales in comparison to the human brain. As long as we're alive, we're able to load as much information as possible into our brains. But unlike a computer, our brains don't have a delete button. How many times have you loaded images or words or words into your brain and wished you could delete them?
I was eight years old when two neighbor kids next door brought over their dad's Hustler magazine. At that age, I could barely comprehend what I was looking at, but those images were burned into my brain for years afterward. Television, movies, video games, and the internet have a profound impact on our lives. I know people who say they have trouble sleeping at night. The first question I ask them is "What were you doing right before going to bed?"
Tell me what youwere watching or reading before bedtime and I'll have a pretty good idea how well you're sleeping. What we choose to load into the hard drive of our brain is powerful. It will either be ammunition used against us by our spiritual enemy or ammunition used to defeat our enemy.
Fuel for the Soul: 21 Devotionals That Nourish (Kindle Location 151). Body and Soul Publishing. Kindle Edition.
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