If some strangers walked into your house and started cursing and hitting each other, would you sit back and enjoy it? No, you'd kick them out. If sleazy people sneaked into your home and started undressing in front of your kids, would you welcome them and let the whole family watch? Absolutely not! But when such people try to enter your house through television or computer, do you stop them?

Most parents complain that there's too much bad entertainment that harms kids--and most parents do nothing about it. Isn't that being lazy and hypocritical? If your kids watch TV unsupervised in their own room or have their own computer without an internet filter, you as a parent are inviting wicked strangers to sneak in and pollute your children's minds. You are disobeying God and cannot claim God's promises for those who command their children in the right way.

Parents must take command of TV, computer, video games, music, and all other sneaky strangers. Each parent must say, "No one who practices deceit will dwell in my house." I know a father who taped a sign above the family TV. The sign said, "I will set before my eyes no vile thing." That affected the man himself and kept him away from many programs he had been watching. When his kids first saw the sign, they complained, "Dad, get rid of that. It interferes with our TV watching." The father replied, "That's what it's supposed to do!"

PRAYER--Almighty Father, help us to recognize Satan's schemes and fight back. Keep us from sin, and focus our hearts and eyes on what is holy and wholesome, for Jesus' sake. Amen.