Fun Is A Dirty Word

"It's only fun if it's still fun in the morning. It's only fun if it's still fun next week. It's only fun if you can laugh at it in church!" (an exert from Ps Judah Smith's message entitled Are We Having Fun Yet?)

Today we a part of a generation of people who have a blurred perspective of what fun is. It really is that simple. We have people all over the world living for their Saturday nights when they can go out and have 'fun.' Where they do things that are fun at the time, in their semi-conscious state of being. Invariably they'll wake up the next day cursing how their head now hurts after last nights fun. Am I the only one who thinks this is folly?


Is that same things going to be fun in a few months time? Or in a few years? What about in the future, when your past catches up with you? Will you still think its fun? Long after all the fun has gone and all you're left with is the broken pieces of your life, will you still think what you did was fun?

There are three things that something must be to be fun-

• Fulfilling- do you leave feeling empty and disheartened? Real fun satisfies.
• Freeing- do the consequences restrict you? (ie. health problems down the track) Real fun doesn't do that.
• Lasting- in your future will you look back on your life with regret or shame? Real fun lasts.

I encourage you then, to seek after the things that will provide real fun and not the hollow, short term pleasure that people perceive as fun. I challenge you, look for fun that'll profit you in the now and live a life that won't catch up with you in the future.