In the days I worked for the Government I frequently traveled out-of-state for several nights. During those times I would stay at Motels. After work and the evening meal in the motel room I would face the issue of how to spend my time. There was no internet then but there was always the TV. On the TV I could watch either broadcast stations or what was offered on cable. Rarely did the broadcast stations offer anything agreeable to me so I would revert to the HBO guide to consider a program. I would think something like, "What benefit will it be for me to learn of Charles Barkley? Will I be better off because of it?" It helped me to realize that the TV had virtually nothing of real lasting value to offer me. It is just temporary entertainment -- a diversion.
These days I do not travel and have more free time. Thankfully, I am not constrained to broadcast TV or to Cable. Because of my internet connection I can select from YouTube what I want to watch. I can watch CBN, or build-it shows, or painting demonstrations, pretty much anything I want. I am not limited to what someone else (especially a liberal someone else) wants to present me. I can also watch broadcast TV, but the only channels I watch are on PBS, and I watch very few of those.
But what need do I have to be diverted as much as I allow myself to be diverted? What should I do of lasting benefit during the same time? I do other things: I Write (as you are now reading), I read, I draw and paint, I talk with my wife and sometimes spend time with my children and grandchildren.
Ephesians 2:10 we are created in Christ unto, for the purpose of, good works which God has before ordained that we should walk in them. God had those good works in his mind perhaps even before he made us. In any case, we and those good works are made to go together. This is what I pray, “Lord please help me to do those good works you have intended for me. I would like to know what they are. I would like inspiration to do them.”
