Is everything fun sinful?

Claim: 

Everything that is fun is sinful!

Possible response:

If we are willing to be honest, we might agree that there are a lot of things that might be fun "at first" but ultimately lead to a sense of shallowness, emptiness, depression, and even misery. 

If we are even more honest, we may have gotten a lot of our ideas of fun, such as drinking, partying, and sex from media and what others have done before us. We simply haven't tried any "other ways" and assume this is the only way to have fun. 

To be in friendship with God doesn't exclude fun, but might suggest that there are other ways of enjoying these gifts. There are other beverages, there are other ways of celebrating, and there are proper ways of using God's designs like sex that may lead to greater fulfillment. 

In these cases, I tend to think we are a lot more like one who has always lived in the dark claiming there is no such thing as light, rather than one who is trying to have a truly balanced, clear-sighted, and unbiased view. 

After all, as the song "Amazing Grace" reminds us, God's grace helps us to say with joy: "I was blind but now I see!" 

And Jesus himself said: "I am the Light of the world! Those who follow me will not walk in darkness, but will have the Light of life." (John 8:12)

It's up to us how honest we are willing to be to consider these things, to pray on them, and to honestly seek God so that he may be found. To find something beyond the mere temporary thrill of "fun" and find things more like "joy" and "peace". 

Finally, it is worth saying that I so disagree with the "Claim" above! Everything that is fun is to be found with God, the creator and author of all that is good. With Him we drink from the Source, where our other ventures we may have been drawing from an empty well.

He will help us overcome all of our sins, and this will be a happy process, not a sad one! He will replace what we once thought was "fun" with something that is so much better that it is beyond what words can tell.

“For My people have committed two evils:

They have forsaken Me,

the fountain of living water,

and they have dug their own cisterns—

broken cisterns that cannot hold water." 

~Jeremiah 2:13

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