I have watched many TV shows that are very intriguing. They are shows that make you think, or you get wrapped up in the drama, or you get wrapped up in the emotion of it all. Any way you look at it, television is a powerful medium. And sometimes the shows you watch can become very addictive. The problem is when we get so wrapped up in it that we watch it more than we should.
I have found myself watching TV too much in the past for a number of different reasons. One reason is that it’s entertaining. You don’t have to think much. You can just sit there and be entertained. You can ‘Veg out’ in front of the TV, as they say. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing sometimes just to give our mind a break. I think another reason is we sometimes want to escape from real life. And who can blame us. Sometimes the real-life situations we get involved in aren’t all that fun. It’s tempting just to escape into some fantasy world on a screen rather than deal with real life. Then there’s just shear laziness. We don’t feel motivated to do much of anything. We can do this when we can’t find anything better to do, or when we have better things to do and don’t want to do them. That second one is called procrastination. I’ve been known to be pretty good at that one. Sometimes we can have a tendency towards depression. And TV can be an easy response to that. It doesn’t demand anything from us. That’s why it can be an escape sometimes. But whatever our reason for watching TV, watching it too much can have a lot of negative effects.
Some of the TV shows I watch are so captivating that I have been compelled to mentioned them to other people. I would ask, “Oh, have you seen this show?” or, “What do you think about this show?” What I’ve found with many people was they would give a quick response saying, “I don’t watch much TV.” It was like this canned response people seemed to have ready. So, I’m left standing there thinking, “Oh…well now where do I go with this?” For one thing, that’s pretty much the end of the conversation. There’s really nowhere to go from there. And the other thing I was wondering is, “Are they implying something about me?” Are they saying they’re somehow superior to me? Are they thinking to themselves, “You watch TV? Ha ha. Read a book you simpleton.”
I’ve mentioned my encounters with people using this response to a friend of mine. I explained my reaction to him and wondering why people say this. He thought it was kind of funny. So now we have this kind of running joke where one of us might mention TV, or a specific show, and the other will say, “Oh, I don’t watch much TV.” Then we’ll have a good laugh about it.
But what’s even funnier, now, is that I’ve found myself so busy that I haven’t had much free time for anything else. That includes TV. I used to have a lot of free time before. Being single allows for that too. But now I seem to have so many meaningful endeavors to occupy my time. Many days it’s a struggle to fit it all in. I can understand a busy person’s perspective a little better. Now, when people mention TV to me—while I might not say it out loud—I might, at least, think to myself, “I don’t really watch much TV.”
Of course, the Bible doesn’t specifically address watching TV. But it does address how we spend our time, and spending our time wisely. Just like any other commodity, we are supposed to be wise stewards of our time.
AV Ephesians 5:15-16: “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” This is one reason to be mindful of how we spend our time. The days are evil. I guess we don’t have to look far to realize this is true. When I look at this word ‘redeeming’ in its original translation means ‘reclaiming’ or ‘out-buying’. We can reclaim or buy back our time. We can grab hold of the time we have and determine to use it in meaningful ways.
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AV James 4:14: “Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.” One thing that makes us especially mindful of our time is just how little we have of it. The Bible describes it so accurately. It’s like a vapour in comparison to the length of eternity. This makes it especially sobering that we are doing things with it that will have eternal significance. Not that we have to be frantic. But just being mindful of each day and how we spend our time is the key.
AV Psalms 90:12: “So teach [us] to number our days, that we may apply [our] hearts unto wisdom.” The great thing is that we can ask God to help us with all of this. He will teach us to number our days. He can help a willing heart to become more intentional with their time. And He will give us wisdom with the time we have when we ask Him for it.
AV Ephesians 5:15-16: “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”
AV Colossians 3:23: “And whatsoever ye do, do [it] heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;”
AV James 4:14: “Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”
AV Psalms 90:12: “So teach [us] to number our days, that we may apply [our] hearts unto wisdom.”