Scott says: "I tried a LARP once. It was entertaining for awhile, but then the librarian said we were making too much noise!...And it just wasn't as much fun in pantomime."
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Proverbs 3:3-6
Matthew 12:22-28
"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and
love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the
other. You cannot serve God and mammon(Matthew 6:24)."
For a long time, I was not wholly Christ's because of what I read
in a Dungeons and Dragons manual. Now, I'm not using this devotion to
condemn roleplaying games. It's been done enough already, concerning
the subject of sorcery, demons and summoning. But there is another
aspect that kept me from being devoted to Christ. It was the concept
of alignment.
According to the basic D&D manual, there are three alignments to
choose from: law, chaos and neutral. Law is considered good, and chaos
is considered evil. There was a diagram on the back.
Elves, munchkins, hobbits and dwarves went mostly on the law side,
and orcs and their lot went on the chaos, and then the fauns and
fairies, or whatever, went in the neutral.
Ah, I thought, this could also apply to real life. You can be on
the good side, or the bad side, or inbetween on the neutral side. I
wanted to be a neutral person, like the fauns and pixies.
But I was wrong. There are no fence sitters in God's kingdom. The
idea of neutrality is a lie. You can never be totally neutral in this
world. Either you are on God's team, or Satan's. There is no
inbetween. Even the person who drifts through this world, not serving
anyone, is actually serving Satan with their inactivity.
I discovered this in James 1:6-7: "...he who doubts is like a wave
of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must
not suppose that a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways, will
receive anything from the Lord."
Life isn't a roleplaying game. It's for real. Align yourself with
God on the law side. There isn't a middle ground.
Dear Jesus, I dedicate my life, my heart to serving your kingdom. I
realize that I cannot be neutral in this world. I can either serve you, or serve the evil one. I pray that you would work in my heart and
make me your dedicated servant. Do not let me be a double minded fence-sitter, but let me profess to others with certainty that you are
my Lord, and that there is no other. Amen.
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