{"id":7885,"date":"2019-09-30T04:48:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/mental-clutter-storage-facilities\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:48:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:48:05","slug":"mental-clutter-storage-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/mental-clutter-storage-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Clutter &#038; Storage Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mental clutter.  Funny, but I don\u2019t remember being absent minded.<\/p>\n<p>Storage facilities \u2014 they are everywhere.  I don\u2019t know about your area, but here in Florida it seems every crossroad has some kind of storage rental building being built.  Are Americans the world\u2019s greatest collectors of junque (fancy junk)?  Maybe we should all move every 10 years just to get rid of junk.  Rule: If you haven\u2019t used it in two years, you don\u2019t need it.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest storage facility ever devised is the human mind.  Each day we pour more information into it, yet we can clearly recall incidents from our childhood, even as we approach senior status.  Amazing!<\/p>\n<p>Just like storage buildings, we need to be careful not to clutter our mental storage with junk \u2014 it\u2019s so easy with today\u2019s TV trash, and it\u2019s getting worse.  Romans 8:6 (nlt), \u201cIf your sinful nature controls your mind, there is death.  But if the Holy Spirit controls your mind, there is life and peace.\u201d  So which one wins?  Whichever one you feed!  So store information carefully, prayerfully and wisely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental clutter. Funny, but I don\u2019t remember being absent minded. Storage facilities \u2014 they are everywhere. I don\u2019t know about your area, but here in Florida it seems every crossroad has some kind of storage rental building being built. Are Americans the world\u2019s greatest collectors of junque (fancy junk)? Maybe we should all move every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[721,56,629,720,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}