A Thought on Harry Potter

Sorry again no post about Ecc. I reread the chapter 3 a couple times but I think I was led to spend some time thinking about this instead:

I was up until almost 2:00 am this morning finishing the latest Harry Potter book. When I only had about 15 pages left I realized something that almost made me grimace: I was on the edge of my seat. I really cared about the fictitious characters and the plot and the ending. In itself that isn’t bad but then I thought of the night before and what would probably happen before I went to bed after I finished the book: I would probably open my bible to some random place in the New Testament and read 10 verses just out of force of habit. If I was tired enough I would probably only actually read 3 or 4 and just briefly skim the rest. How could I be so enthralled in this fictitious book that I had read all 6oo pages in less than 3 days and yet I couldn’t take the time to spend time reading more of the most truthful book in all of creation.

It’s not just Harry Potter I do this with that just happened to be the book I was reading at the time. But how many times do we do that? As humans we would rather read a bunch of words thrown together by someone who has an imagination (that was given to them by God) than read the words of the very God that created our language.

Indeed I did read my usual 10 verses before I went to bed and try as I might to stop myself I skimmed a few of them. How could I be so selfish and close-minded?

In my opinion there is nothing evil with Harry Potter (we can get into the whole stumbling block issue later). I don’t honestly think there is anything wrong with getting engrossed in a book either. No where in the Bible does it say ‘read the Bible or you’ll go to hell” (as far as I know). But it is part of growing closer to God. You can be Baptized and accept Christ as your Lord and savior and be saved without really meditating on the Bible. However how are you supposed to know you are saved? How can you know when you screw up if you didn’t read what counts as screwing up. The Bible is such an incredible book. At times it seems to drag on but if you can get passed the long lineages and the repetition of parts than you can find so many incredible lessons.

I pray that someday I could get to the point where I have an unquenchable thirst for the words of my Lord. I hope that one day I will be to the point where I’m on the edge of my seat because I’m reading the Bible. I don’t know how to get to that point besides to pray that God will lead you there and to continue to read the Bible so you can understand it better. I hope you will pray the same thing.