Our study is the Attributes of God, volume 1, with Study Guide.
The chapter is Chapter 7 - The Omnipresence Of God.
The section is titled, The Bless Of Moral Creatures.
The premise and context is that God's presence is everywhere, as Psalm 139 indicates.
But in this section, Tozer is making the point that our moral dissimilarity (I.e., our natures which are dissimilar to God's) contributes to how we busy ourselves and fill our lives with endless things because we're trying to fill a void.
Tozer says:
This accounts for our busy activities; it accounts for practically all the entertainment in the world. People invent every sort of entertainment because they can’t live with themselves knowing they’re alienated from God. They can’t live knowing that there is a moral dissimilarity that shall forever and forever keep a sense of all but infinite remoteness between their soul and their God who is their life and their sunshine.
Well, as I was reading through 1 Corinthians, chapters 1 through 6, it struck me as another challenge for souls who want to be true disciples of Jesus Christ.
The question I thought to myself was, are there things in my life that I make excuses about in order to keep hold of them?
Are there entertaining things that I tend to claim are lawful for me, e.g. they are not sin, but are not expedient or beneficial or edifying or equipping to my life with Christ?
Are there things that I cling to that are not edifying or benefiting others?
The question that was brought up during the study was:
Does all that we do in the name of entertainment fall under this category?