What are you feeding your soul?

What are you feeding your soul?

Did you hear the new reports coming out of Washington?
Did you see what happened in Europe today?
Did you see what they posted last night on Facebook?

Let me ask a question I can’t seem to shake:

Why do we keep falling for the rage bait?

We know better.

We know so much of what floods our feeds is engineered to provoke us — to pull emotion out of us because emotion keeps us clicking, scrolling, arguing, and consuming. The algorithm doesn’t care about your peace. It cares about your attention.

That’s how you end up 45 minutes deep — bouncing from global crisis… to political outrage… to comment-section warfare… to cat and kitten videos — not because you chose it, but because you stopped paying attention to what you were consuming.

And here’s the cost.

We live in a day where:

• Mental health struggles have skyrocketed.

• Division is triggered at the touch of a hair.

• Isolation is chosen faster than connection.

And yet we rarely stop to ask what role our intake is playing in all of it.

Because consumption shapes condition.

What you consistently take in eventually forms what comes out of you.

If you feed your soul outrage… don’t be surprised when anger becomes your resting posture.
If you feed your soul fear… don’t be surprised when anxiety becomes your inner climate.
If you feed your soul comparison… don’t be surprised when discontentment becomes your lens on life.

We need a different diet.

Because some of what we are ingesting every day is not neutral — it’s corrosive.

It’s eroding joy.
It’s thinning patience.
It’s hardening compassion.
It’s exhausting hope.

And slowly, subtly… it’s killing our souls.

You don’t drift toward health.
You choose it.

So maybe today the better question isn’t “What’s happening in the world?”

Maybe it’s:

“What am I allowing to shape my inner world?”

Because your soul is being formed — whether you’re intentional about it or not.

And that reality hit even closer to home for me recently.

Recently, a small group of guys I get to spend time with started walking through the book of Colossians together.

One of the primary things Paul establishes with this church is a reminder of who they are.

Because somewhere along the way, they had traded the fidelity of their identity for the passivity of just existing like everyone else around them.

Sound familiar?

They weren’t hostile to faith.
They hadn’t abandoned belief.
They had just… drifted.

Drifted into cultural norms.
Drifted into spiritual complacency.
Drifted into a version of life that looked no different than the world surrounding them.

So Paul calls them back — not first to behavior — but to identity.

This past week, as a group, we made a simple commitment:

To feed our souls daily with the reminder of who we are.

Not to inflate our self-esteem.
Not to manufacture confidence.
But to fight the rage bait of the world with the resiliency that comes from an identity founded in Christ.

Because here’s part of what’s really happening beneath the surface:

We don’t just take the bait because we’re angry…

We take the bait because we’ve lost clarity about who we are.

When identity gets blurry, insecurity gets loud.

And when insecurity gets loud, we start proving ourselves.

Proving our intelligence.
Proving our morality.
Proving our worth.
Proving our value — usually by elevating ourselves above others.

That’s why outrage feels so satisfying in the moment — it gives insecure identity a temporary hit of validation.

But it’s hollow.

Because you can’t build a stable soul on comparison, criticism, or cultural combat.

Paul knew that.

Which is why before he ever told the Colossian church how to live… he reminded them who they were.

Chosen.
Set apart.
Alive in Christ.
Hidden with Him.
Rooted and built up in Him.

Identity first.
Behavior second.

And maybe that’s the reclamation some of us need right now.

Not less information…
But deeper formation.

Not another headline…
But a clearer reminder of who we are.

Because when you know who you are, you don’t need rage to feel significant.

You already are.

So feed your soul accordingly.

Or, as Paul reminded the Colossian church:

“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.”
— Colossians 3:1–3

Hidden.
Secure.
Anchored.

That’s an identity no headline can shake — and no rage bait can redefine.

Feed your soul from there.