Article July 7, 1997 Issue

What is entertainment?

Keith Austin Wommack

The entertainment industry is a booming business. Cable television, videos, theaters, computer games, the Internet, sports complexes, and talk radio—with all these it might seem that no one could ever be bored. If, however, a cable or an entertainer were our actual link to joy, we could be cut off or let down in a minute. But we can't be cut off from joy's true source. God, Soul, gives us delight and happiness freely, and nothing less. This is joy that cannot be taken from us.

Dynamism, symmetry, agility, focus, spontaneity—qualities we love in sports and in the arts, are, in fact, qualities of Soul. We glimpse in them something of the spiritual nature of being. And whether they appear as tones, textures, action, or balance, these qualities are not physical characteristics at all. They are elements of Soul's symphony unfolding to and through man.

Man already includes all good because man is Soul's expression. As this truth is understood, we won't settle for anything less than the joy and goodness that are naturally ours. God's rousing call for us to embrace real happiness is heard in the book of Isaiah: "Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. ... For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace" (55:2, 12).

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