Like a bunch of hens around a rotisserie …

A Facebook friend recently posted the above image. While I thought there was something oddly funny about the cartoon, it made me wonder what it is about us that makes us want to look upon the horrific and tragic.

Why is it that we find ourselves curious about the tangled metal of a car accident, slowing down and straining to look, yet we need to be prodded and poked to seek out the holy, the pure, the beautiful, the beneficial?

It shouldn’t be that way for God’s children.

The Apostle Paul gives clear direction regarding the things Christians should set their gaze (and their minds) upon:

“And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise,” Philippians 4:8.

Is this your practice? If not, why not? It can be.

Will it be?

Scotty