Christians and Entertainment - Music, Movies, Video Games, Sports - Read What A. W. Tozer Has to Say on the Subject

A German philosopher many years ago said something to the effect that the more a man has in his own heart the less he will require from the outside; excessive need for support from without is proof of the bankruptcy of the inner man.

If this is true (and I believe it is) then the present inordinate attachment to every form of entertainment is evidence that the inner life of modern man is in serious decline.
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The above quote is from a chapter entitled "The Great God of Entertainment" in The Roots of Righteousness by A. W. Tozer. The more I read Tozer, the more I think we are kindred spirits.

Yesterday I went to the downtown Berkeley library. After doing some work on the computer, I went to the book shelves to find something to check out. I looked in the physics section and then went to the religion section. I could find nothing that I felt I like checking out. I had the distinct sense that there was nothing there anyone could teach me.

Tozer is right. Why do we need comedians to make us happy? Should we not be happy from within. Why do I need some stranger who wrote a book to tell me about God? I know God and receive delicate guidance and direction from Him within. When I read a book, it is more like scanning for clues; and the prompting to pick it up came from within.

So yesterday I just left the library and meditated on what I had just realized. Perhaps today or tomorrow my intuition will gently prompt me to read something. If not, I will just wait until it does.

Find the inner way to God and you will be complete and whole. Then you can scan a book to glean clues, raw material or facts that will later be collated in the Light to testify to inner revelation and to use as material to talk and bout or write about to provide clues to others.

Meditate, using my meditation, to find a rapport with inner intuition from God. Then you can read lightly and certain things will be highlighted to remind you of what you already know wordlessly or to provide external evidence of a principle you realize within.