I really enjoyed this article on the 3rd Commandment. I love breaking down the commandments and really thinking about the sins that they are speaking about. Personally, I believe, in this day and age of our church, we just don't spend enough time examining our sins. We spend so much time on behavior improvement, but if we are committed about looking at our lives and seeing the sin in them the only direction to go is God working through us -- His workmanship. What it seems we are doing is focusing on good behavior and then we need to rest and our rest is often entertainment that lends itself to sin, but we don't think about it that way because we have been engaged in so much so-called good behavior that we think we deserve the entertainment. We work hard at our jobs and deserve time off. Don't get me wrong. We need rest. Thus, the Sabbath. We need to have a day of rest in our lives. But, it needs to be more scheduled, as God scheduled it, once a week.
Okay, enough soup box, here are some quotes and thoughts from this article in Tabletalk magazine, which I continue to just love and pour through.
Television and movies are so littered with expletives that we have almost become immune to their destructive power.
I don't know why we don't see this. Part of me thinks it is because of the above. But, why do we go to movies when we know God's name will be taken in vain 5+, 10+, or 30+ times?
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