It is an already admitted reality that we have too many inputs on any given day to process. When we add to the chaos, by adding information that is stealing our margin, we become the problem. We must guard what we allow into our minds, if we hope to have the perspective we need to lead ourselves well. This post by Abigail Dodds was excellent:
Perhaps one of the more obvious discoveries of my life is that the majority of the thinking that I do is passive, not active. When I read my Bible each day, I am often actively holding up specific beliefs against the light of God’s word to see if I believe anything wrongly. Simultaneously, through the mere act of reading well, a hundred other truths are making themselves at home in my mind, even if I’m not wrestling with any one of them in the moment.