Today we are living in a fast-moving world. Work schedule & routines, work pressure & demands, peer pressure etc are issues which is a reality and most of us get stressed out at the end of a hectic day. Therefore, people look out for times of relaxation which act as stress busters. For some it is watching a latest movie, for some it is just using the weekends to just sleep, for those who live in advanced cities it is going to a pub, bar or night club. Many Christians also follow this practice. In this process, they miss out on praying to God, reading, studying the Scriptures, witnessing for Christ as well as having meaningful fellowship with fellow believers. They argue that these are just stress busters and it does not mean that they do not love Christ.
First of all, we should understand that Loving Christ means that we also trust Him. Let us consider few things on this matter.
What worldly entertainment cannot do…..
Many Christians who say & claim that they really love God devote their time, even stressful times to forms of entertainment such as movies, clubs, pubs, social gatherings, eating & sleeping etc. They don’t use that time to meaningful & spiritually edifying habits such as Bible reading, studying, praying, having fellowship with people who can guide them, advise them and pray with them. Loving & Trusting God as a believer means that we honour and love God to an extent that we want to know Him more, fellowship with Him more, and be near Him. Movies, clubs, pubs, social gatherings, eating & sleeping cannot to do that. On the contrary, these things are well designed to hinder the desire in our heart to love God, fellowship with Him and study His Word.
What worldly entertainment does…..
Apart from robbing the desire for God from our hearts, these modes of entertainment do a dangerous thing for a believer. It presents a world-view, thought pattern that God is not necessary. These forms of entertainment slowly makes us think that God is irrelevant. It makes us accept that God un-real. We start thinking God as some sort of view that is unnecessary for us and makes us to believe that life can go on without God.
What Jesus Said….
John writes in 1 John 5:3-4 that, a person who really loves God will delight in obeying His commands. For such a person obeying God’s word is not stressful but a delight. And when we live this type of life by faith, we will overcome all those things that are hindrances in obeying His commands. Worldly habits cannot overcome our love for God. And in this victory the main thing is our faith. Therefore, as by faith we understand who God is, we love him, we obey Him; we defeat the world & the love for the world which used to have dominion over us because of which we didn’t love God and didn’t obey His commands. The world, love for the world, entertainment offered by the world no more control us but we are now controlled by the Love of God.
What Jesus Wants….
As a Christian Believer, if we have been using the worldly model of entertainment, relaxation etc to overcome stress, then we should ponder on 2 Peter 1:10-11. As we analyse our present, the things which we love, we are attracted to, we indulge in would help us to become serious about the issue of our salvation. Most people try to analyse the assurance of their salvation based on past memories or experiences but they completely ignore their present affiliations. We should be careful that we don’t trust our sinful hearts and be deceived. So we should turn to the Lord, repent of our sins and look to Him.
Amen.
Ps. Monish Mitra
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