A MOMENT WITH OUR MINISTER

Rev. John Moore

October 2000
There is a three letter word that is being used often
in our day. I have heard it often used.  But it has
come to my attention, in a couple of different ways,
in the past few days.

On a busy older U S highway leading into the city of
Coldwater is a place of business with a portable
marquis is front that has an interesting advertisement
with these three words: “We sell fun”.  I stopped in
the other day to ask what it was that the company sold
for fun.  “Everything in here” said the salesperson,
with a sweeping gesture of arms, travel vehicles,
including motor homes and travel trailers, with all of
the accessories.

Ellie and I were returning from Ann Arbor driving west
on I-94.  I passed a pick-up which had a bumper
sticker that caught my attention.  It related to the
marquis.  "If it isn’t fun, why are you doing it?” 
The driver was not a teen-ager but a mature adult.  I
was not able to, but very much wanted to, get the
attention of the driver and  have the opportunity to
ask for the person’s translation of “fun”.  I remain
disappointed not being able to have had that
opportunity.

“Fun” is not a Bible word.  So I consulted another
valuable book to check out this word.  Very
interesting the enlightment shed by the dictionary.

“Fun” (used as a noun), has the beginning meaning of
“fool, foolish, to be foolish”.  The word in the
Scriptures for “fun” is “pleasure”.  “Pleasure” in the
Scriptures, has positive and negative meaning.  “Fun”
can also be defined with the word “pleasure”. 

I like to have “fun”. It is my opinion that those who
have the most “fun” in life are Christians.  However,
you cannot buy genuine “fun” (pleasure).

My experience is that living the Christian life, doing
God’s will, is both pleasure and “fun”.  Hopefully you
find that to be true.  The Scriptures tell us that “at
His right hand are pleasures (“fun”)forevermore”. 
These kinds of pleasures are not for sale.  They are a
gift which comes from serving Him Who came to give us
“life and life more abundantly”.
your friend and Pastor, John
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