3:23: “‘Forsake Me not’ says the Lord. I will never forsake you.

“How do you forsake Me? What is ‘forsake?’ To forsake is to forget, to turn away in search of something ‘better.’ What could be better than the Great I AM? Consider your ways. Consider your choices during a day. Do you forsake My desire for you when you choose your entertainment? What you read, what you watch? Is your entertainment full of acts of sin? Do I find sin entertaining? Does it present ways of living that are against My Law? Who are the characters you are supposed to like? What do they stand for? Do they live in a manner that stands against Me, yet present it as acceptable, even empathetic. Should you empathize with sin?

“Your enemy is wily. Entertainment gives him much opportunity to seduce you with sin. To spend two hours with eyes fixed on a screen, and thrilled at the plot, perhaps the music, of people who are and do what you would not. Sympathy does not make right. Story, setting, music, costume, do not make right. Yet you would pretend so, by your very attention. You would forget Me as you watch, set aside My clear path for holy living for that time as you seek something ‘better.’ ‘Be holy, as I AM holy,’ says My Word. Would you watch this story, read this book, with Jesus beside you? HE IS BESIDE YOU. My Holy Spirit is IN you. Is He enthralled?

“To be holy means to be set apart for Me. This requires right choice in all you do. Entertainment is not an exception, a time to step away from My perfect desire for you, for love of a story. I AM your Story. I AM the author of YOU. And the FINISHER, leading you along the right path. Look to Me for your choice in all matters, look not to the world. You are to shape culture to represent Me, not be molded by it.

“‘But then what would be left for my entertainment?’ you say. ‘It’s all tainted.’ If you know such, why participate? Are My People not to shape culture for My Glory? Or are you to be shaped by it? CONSIDER YOUR WAYS. Does My Word not speak about disciplining your mind, your thoughts? All action starts with a thought. The wiles of your enemy would mold your thought of sin to ‘it’s not so bad’ through the empathy of characters. Those thoughts sit within you to form a plan, a way of belief. You speak of the story to others, relate the tale, sing the songs. Now your enemy has you spreading his message, all in the name of ‘fun entertainment.’ The story, the songs then become part of your culture to effect compromise. Do you think your enemy does not use such things against you? He is pleased with your choices, and greatly pleased at your molding, the weakening of your conscience. Who shall shape culture if My People do not? Your enemy.

“Consider these things. I call you Higher. I call you to greater ways of life that I choose for you. My path of My Will for you does not include side roads for wandering. Do not fill your mind with a side road. Follow my footsteps in ALL things. Forsake Me not – in any choice. And it will be well with your soul.”
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Notes:

Leviticus 20:26: Thus you are to be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy; and I have set you apart from the peoples to be Mine.

Hebrews 12:1-2: Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

II Corinthians 10:5:  We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

Psalm 25:4-5: Make me know Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; for You I wait all the day.

Proverbs 10:17: Whoever heeds discipline shows the way to life, but whoever ignores correction leads others astray.