Entertainment and rest aren't sinful, but they become dangerous when they replace God's presence and help us avoid loneliness. God's presence lives in silence in a way screens never can. Real control comes from God, not from money, schedules, or discipline, which only mask chaos rather than master it.
And I want to say this carefully because I'm not against entertainment and rest because those things are not sin. Entertainment and rest is not sin. But I need you to ask yourself, what are you actually asking the noise to do? If the honest answer is make me feel like I'm not alone, that's not entertainment anymore. That's a substitute for presence. And a screen, no matter how good, cannot be with you. It can only be near you. God's presence is different in kind, not just in degree. He doesn't fill the silence with more noise. He's with you in the silence, woman of God, man of God, which is the only thing that has Ever actually made silence survivable. Number 3, this is the third thing that God does, because he gives a sense of control over a life that feels out of control. And every human heart is asking something to give it a feeling of control. And you say, I've got this. I'm not drowning. For some of us, that's money, not because we're greedy, but because a number in an account feels like a guarantee against chaos. For some of us, it's our schedule, our discipline, our organization of everything we do in life. Because if I can control this, maybe the parts of life I can't control won't hurt as much. Now here's the deception in the right hand.
