Dumbed Down

​Something very alarming and worth taking note of is happening across our great nation.

​The American people are being dumbed down.

• Dumbed down means everyone must be the same. No one is unique, special, important or significant. Everyone has to be equally plain old vanilla.

Being dumbed down means you don’t think for yourself. You drink the Kool-aid of someone who thinks for you. The elitists (the dumb downers) must think for you because they do not think you can think for yourself. In other words, they think you are stupid. So, they dumb and numb you down to keep you stupid.  

• Dumbed down people are mindless, non-thinking puppets whose every movement is controlled by the puppeteer.

People who have been duped and dumbed down blindly hop on whatever hyped-up, popular, trending, sensationalized band wagon passing through town, surrendering their personal freedom to choose for themselves. Those who are dumbed down are force fed whatever politically correct meal those in power positions whip up for their consumption in the dumbing down kitchen.
It is sad that increasing numbers of Americans are so deceived and dumbed down that they are riding on a stupid train that they have no clue where it is going. What is frightening is that individual people, contrary to all the “matter” hashtags out there, really do not matter anymore.  
Surrounded by a dumbing down culture, as a follower of Jesus Christ, I have good news for all of us who have no desire to be dumbed down.  

• God, according to His word in the Bible, never dumbs anybody down.

On the contrary, GOD CELEBRATES EACH PERSON! He empowers you and me as a unique person who has God-given potential to so something significant for the Kingdom of God and the good of humanity.
The Bible declares that every person is created in the image of Almighty God (Genesis 1:26-27).  “In His image” means likeness. You and I are like God, who is not dumbed down!  According to Psalm 139, you and I are one of a kind. “Fearfully and wonderfully” made, there will never be another one of us. You and I are not vanilla. More like 31 Flavors!
God saw us in our mother’s womb before we were there. Only God could do that! Every single day of our lives was planned out before we lived it. Amazing! David also assures us that God surrounds us. We cannot escape His holy presence (who would want to?).  God’s thoughts are innumerable toward us. He cannot get us off His mind! That is incredibly good for you and me. Psalm 139.   
And speaking of mind, I Corinthians 1: 14-16 states that believers in Christ have His mind. Having “the mind of Christ” means I can think God’s thoughts. I can think for myself as God’s son or daughter. Nobody gets to dumb me down by thinking less of me!
Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, came to lift people up, not dumb them down. John 10:10 says “I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly.” An abundant life does not sound like dumbed down living to me! 

• Bottom line: you and I are not dummies in God’s eyes!

By faith we choose to believe, to think, to decide, to behave for ourselves. Feeding on God’s holy word, we reject being spoon fed by those who would have us to conform to an atheistic, anti-Christian culture.
How You Can Avoid Being Dumbed Down By Anyone

• Search the scripture. Know your Bible.  Meditate on God’s Word. Memorize the truth. Realize how special and precious you are in God’s eyes. Speak the Word over your life and loved ones.
• Affirm daily your uniqueness and significance in Christ. Never allow any man or system to conform you to their image. You are a child of the Living God! Rejoice in your relationship with the Lord every day.  
• Stop drinking the world’s Kool-aid. That’s right. Do not believe everything you see and hear in the media, read on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or whatever is out there. 
• Check out facts for yourself. Do not depend or rely upon biased, agenda-driven, sensational reporting of events that turn out to be more fiction than fact. 
• Compare what Satan and worldly men say with the holy Word of God. If it is not in the Word, it will dumb you down and numb you to the things of God.
• Resist the herd mentality. Keep your distance from emotionally charged feeding frenzies whipped up by someone who wants to control and enslave you.
• Never, never, never, I will say it again, never allow anyone to brainwash you. If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, your entire life, body, spirit, and soul (mind, will and emotions) have been washed in the blood of the Lamb! This is the only “washing” you and I need.  

Only dummies who do not think for themselves can be dumbed down! 
Settle it now.  In Christ you and I are more than smart enough to resist being dumbed down.
A Word For Your Week:  Being dumbed down is never smart.