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Walk Not in the Way With Sinners, July 30
Recreation and Amusements
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.... My son, walk not
thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path.
Proverbs 1:10-15
Amusements are doing more to counteract the working of the Holy
Spirit than anything else, and the Lord is grieved.
Those who are artificial in character and religious experience too
readily gather for pleasure and amusement, and their influence attracts
others. Sometimes young men and women who are trying to be Bible
Christians are persuaded to join the party. Unwilling to be thought sin-
gular, and naturally inclined to follow the example of others, they place
themselves under the influence of those who, perhaps, have never felt
the divine touch on mind and heart. Had they prayerfully consulted the
divine standard, to learn what Christ has said in regard to the fruit to be
borne on the Christian tree, they would have discerned that these enter-
tainments were really banquets prepared to keep souls from accepting
the invitation to the marriage supper of the Lamb.
It sometimes happens that by frequenting places of amusement, youth
who have been carefully instructed in the way of the Lord are carried
away by the glamor of human influence, and form attachments for those
whose education and training have been of a worldly character. They
sell themselves into lifelong bondage by uniting with persons who have
not the ornament of a Christlike spirit.
You will be invited to attend places of amusement.... If you are true to
Christ then, you will not try to form excuses for your nonattendance, but
will plainly and modestly declare that you are a child of God, and your
principles would not allow you to be in a place, even for one occasion,
where you could not invite the presence of your Lord.
God desires His people to show by their lives the advantage of Chris-
tianity over worldliness; to show that they are working on a high, holy
plane.
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