Happy Birthday Clive. A tribute to joy in God.

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I am finding it difficult to do what I need to do.

Why do I want to distract myself?

Actually applying the Bible hardly happens.

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

(Galatians 2:20 ESV)

Pray that I love

and out of that love that I may encourage my brothers around me.

missflower:

Dreamworld. 

The Problem with Fun

It is not mentioned in the Bible. If I am to be in complete love with my God, then the result is living for Jesus.That doesn’t just mean I start living my life with Biblical principles, but living with my purpose of glorifying God and furthering the kingdom. Where does fun fit in with that? Where does reading a non-edifying fiction book fall into that?

But that doesn’t sit right with me, but I don’t know if that is simply my sinful flesh that is not satisfied with knowing God and loving Him. I know that among many ‘worldly’ things, they are to be used to further community, with the end of furthering the Gospel. I can play video games to build relationships. But where does me using hours every week to read/play with no purpose but to pass the time?

Hypothetically, if you were among some believers who you already were close friends with, would there be anything of more importance than growing together in the Word and interceding for others in prayer? Where does the Bible speak about leisure or fun? I’ll tell you: nowhere.

I look to the lives of Apostle Paul, Jonathan Edwards, and others, whose lives were characterized by knowing God, writing about God, and telling everybody how to get to God. On the Sabbath, definitely use that time to bring your family together (all for the end of raising Christ-loving kids), but you could then see why Paul would wish that others were not married, so they could be ministering 24/7!! What is fun, and are we to have anything to do with it? This is my quest for the next week to figure this out, so that I can run towards my goal with clarity of vision.