Daily Bible Reading with DragoNate #149

Wandering Mind

Philippians 4

I pray blessings on you as you read.

(v. 7-8) "Then God's peace, which goes beyond anything we can imagine, will guard your thoughts and emotions through Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers and sisters, keep your thoughts on whatever is right or deserves praise: things that are true, honorable, fair, pure, acceptable or commendable."

My Thoughts

Our minds like to wander, don't they? Mine definitely does, and it seems to do so more when I am trying to focus on something, like prayer. Not always does it go to bad things, but it does wander. Sometimes, my mind does wander into areas I don't want it to. That's something we need to be careful about.

What we need to keep our minds focused on are what Paul mentions here. True, pure, fair, honorable, acceptable and commendable things. Don't let your mind go to places where impure thoughts abound. Doing so will lead you into temptation, like I talked about a couple days ago.

When your mind wanders into that kind of territory, you become distracted from the things of God. Our attitude can reflect it sometimes too. So if we keep pure thoughts in our minds, our attitude will reflect that as well.

There is nothing wrong with thinking about work or a project or a movie or a game. The biggest thing is that is not where our minds should be focused most of the time. Focus on the task at hand that needs to be done like work. When you're watching a movie, enjoy the movie. It's when we are bored or relaxing or otherwise not doing anything that we need to be wary of where our minds are.

When your mind is in that place where it has nothing specific to focus on or anything, that's when it may wander into impure territory. When we have nothing to do or we are bored or relaxing, we need to be careful of our thoughts and focus them on the things of God and on other good things. Not let our thoughts become dark or tainted or impure.

Prayer Time

Now you talk to God about what you read, and you can even read this chapter of the Bible for yourself before you do.

Let me know your thoughts on this reading as well.

Thank you for taking the time to read, I pray that what you have read blesses and inspires you! Godbless!

Antichamber First Impression

Antichamber is a super weird, mind bending/warping/tripping, etc... exploratory game. It is confusing, just like The Stanley Parable. I love Antichamber because it is so weird. You really have to think outside the box to figure out because in order for things to work, you have to do something that you would not have expected or thought of. Sometimes you may even have to backtrack so that you can progress.

If you decide to play Antichamber, in which I highly recommend that you do, you'd better be prepared to be amazed! The things you can do in this game are so freaking awesome! It is full of puzzles that you have to figure out and choices that'll take you in a totally different direction, or maybe not so different... Once you've been to a particular part though, you can return there any time you want from the main menu area.

I honestly can't see why it was called Antichamber, the title just doesn't make sense to me. At the same time, I cannot think of any other name for this game that would be catchy, descriptive or the like. Seriously, go play Antichamber for yourself and you'll feel weirded out by different things afterward. Actually, now that I think of it, Antichamber could very well teach you how think outside the box and not take what you see, hear, taste smell or feel for granted.

Maybe Antichamber is more than just a game. It could be a teaching tool, if you use it as such and focus on those aspects of what it makes you do. Take a look at my video down below and you'll see what I'm talking about here. If you like this video, head over to my channel by clicking my name and check out my other videos. Don't forget to subscribe while you're at it!

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