Purging

Lately, it feels like I'm finding myself in a new mode.  I used to be the kind of person who couldn't miss my "shows" every week (on MY time, with a dvr... I wasn't actually a slave to the schedule) and who was very obsessed with music.  Recently, I feel like the Lord is showing me, more and more that I just don't need that stuff.  First, he prompted me to get rid of most of my secular music.  I kept the jazz but that's about it.  Everything else in my collection and on my mp3 player is Christian and uplifting. There are also a number of television shows lately that have actually offended me enough that I don't plan on watching them ever again.  House is one of them.  Monday night, I sat down to watch House with two of my girlfriends.  The entire episode was about a couple with an "open" marriage.  If that wasn't offensive enough, one of the doctors on the team coaxed his wife into telling him he could see someone else.  But then, at the very last minute, she had second thoughts.  He went home with his wife that night but cheated on her anyway within a couple of days.  There is absolutely no way I will watch this show ever again.  While I was watching, I kept thinking, why am I filling myself up with this?  It's not that I'm worried that I'm going to start wanting to emulate these things in my life... But why watch something so negative that disgusts me so much, and would completely offend God?  I should be filling myself up with the Word and sermons and praise music.  If I fill my heart up with junk, how can I expect to hear from the Lord?

I don't claim that this is a revelation or that no one else has ever experienced it... I just don't know how I never caught this truth before.  It seems so obvious.