Thursday, September 15, 2016

Like A Babe For It's Rattle

But," says one, "are we not to have amusements?" Yes, such amusements as you can practice in the fear of God. You may do whatever Jesus would have done.


I have nothing to say against recreation in its proper place. Certain forms of recreation are needful and useful but it is a wretched thing when amusement becomes a lifestyle! Amusement should be used to do us good like a medicine it must never be used as the Christian's food.


From early morning till late at night, some spend their time in a round of frivolities or else their very work is simply carried on to furnish them funds for their pleasures. This is wicked. Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of thought!


This is the age of excessive amusement everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!


[Charles H. Spurgeon]


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1 John 2:5-6 ... But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.  He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.





1 Peter 2:21 ... For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:




2 John 6 ... And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.❤