Like I had mentioned in my previous entry, that I was never a reader until this year. Eugene once mentioned to me that a leader is a reader. A leader is one who lead his people with a vision. Visions are not meant for the lazy mind and reading is never for the lazy mind. I begin to see why. Just as much as I was never a reader, I was very much a TV couch potato and even till now, I must admit that I still am. Thank God for TV and TV programs.
However recently I had a revelation regarding why a leader is a reader but you never hear anyone say that a leader is a TV couch potato. Interesting yah? I begin to understand that reading unlike watching TV, tapped into our realm of imagination. When we read, what appears before our eyes are simply words, words and more words. There's no instant pictures or graphics and as we read, subconsciously we begin to form images in our mind. As time goes on, our mind are trained to visualised and we become discipline in "containing" the image that we desires to see. Just like working out our arms' muscle, likewise we are working on our brain muscle. As these brain muscles get stronger, we become more of a visionary.
On contrary, what pops out of a TV box are ready images that enters through our eyes and right into our mind. Without any need for us to activate our imagination, we constantly just feed on whatever images that are fed to us. This is comparable to us opening up our mouth and someone keep feeding us with food. There's no need for us to work out in any aspect and we become the passive recipient. prolong repetition of such passiveness causes our mind to be lazy in visualising. We move from visionary to become vision-no-more. We move from hearing/seeing the language of the Holy Spirit (which is visions and dreams) to finally receive hand-out from the world. Instead of tapping into the fourth dimension to change our third dimension, we are stuck in our third dimension. Talking about manhood, now I begin to see the damage pornography has on our man today such that it totally block off the language of the Holy Spirit and in turn, replace these God given visions with perverted visions that totally plunge man into a lazy state of mind. Now I begin to realised why bible is a book, not a tape, not a comics...haha...
Start being a reader if you are not yet. Read!!! But be wise in the choice of book you are reading.
Disclaimer: In my own opinion, watching TV is still very necessary. Personally some information such as those from Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, etc I still prefer receiving them from TV.
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