"When you enter the land that God, your God, is giving you, don't take on the abominable ways of life of the nations there. Don't you dare sacrifice your son or daughter in the fire. Don't practice divination, sorcery, fortunetelling, witchery, casting spells, holding séances, or channeling with the dead. People who do these things are an abomination to God. It's because of just such abominable practices that God, your God, is driving these nations out before you." Deuteronomy 18:9-12 The Message
Sometimes we think God gave us commands like this simply because He's a jealous God, which is a good enough reason all on its own, but I'd venture to say there is more to it. Perhaps our all knowing God gave us this command to protect us from things we cannot see but that are real and can cause us real harm.
Every time I hear that one of God's people watched Twilight or read Harry Potter or some Stephen King novel, it just tears my heart out. These things may seem like just another form of entertainment, but they are more than that. Cleverly disguised as harmless, Satan uses these movies or books to desensitize us to God's Spirit and to lead us down a path of indifference or worse. Why, oh why, would we even want to come near anything that has even a remote resemblence to the occult when God clearly states it is something He hates? As His people He asks, He commands, us to stay away from these things! Why? Not only do they hinder our personal walk with God, they hurt our family. When we allow these things into our home we are opening up our children's lives to a demonic demension they are not prepared to fight, neither should they have to! As parents we are to train up our children in the way they should go, to protect them from ungodly influences, not willingly open up our home to these things. Why is there so much contention in our homes? Why do we we sense a spirit of fear, have nightmares? Could it be the forms of entertainment we are allowing in our home? You don't have to take my word for it, ask God. If the above scripture isn't enough proof for you, then be led by the very Spirit of Christ that dwells in you. Ask Him to show you if something you find entertaining is actually offensive to Him and and if it opens your home to things that shouldn't be allowed.
Is this also why we struggle in our walk with God? Why we have become weak in faith or have compromised those things we once proclaimed to never abandon for Christ? Let's examine ourselves, clean our homes and hearts of these seemingly innocent forms of entertainment and live in real supernatural power that comes from God alone!
