So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do. (Ephesians 5:15-17 NLT)Trying to find a movie to watch is hard sometimes. Tonight I went through two and didn’t like either one.
One was promising, an older action thriller, but turned out to be hard to follow and boring. The other, a more modern edgy comic strip like movie turned out to be on the ugly side. There are enough ugly things without watching more on TV.
So. I am not watching anything tonight. Instead, I think I will go to bed early.
We have a tendency to just watch stuff because it is on. Since we got rid of our cable, we haven’t done that as much as before. Anything we watch is generally in movie form – in fact it is always in movie form – so we pick out what we want to watch. And if it is not good, too bad, doodad. We are through with it.
There are too many things I could be doing in life besides suffering through some stupid movie.
Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days, the scripture says. In other words, don’t be stupid and waste your time watching some sub-standard movie about people you do not care for doing things that are wrong. You have better things to do.
A lot of the people in movies are doing things you would never do and are the kind of people you would not want to hang around with anyway. So why watch them do these stupid things?
It is no wonder our kids have such problems. Hollywood and the TV industry has convinced them that everybody curses, everybody lies, everybody is immoral, because that is what they see over and over on the screen.
And as the old computer saying goes, “Garbage In, Garbage Out.” You are what you eat. You become what you look at if you look at it long enough.
All those sayings mean nothing more than the fact that you take on the characteristics of that with which you spend your time.
The Lord wants you to do things that are honorable. So be careful.
And turn the stupid TV off.
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