I have heard it said that much of what the church does today is “entertainment”. That troubles me for 2 reasons:
One — It is a disparaging remark and I have come to see that most disparaging remarks aren’t necessarily of the Spirit. So I am disappointed when brothers and sisters make disparaging remarks about something I love.
Two – Is it true? Are we just doing actions but not doing and being what the Father wanted?
What the Spirit showed me was that yes this comment is true but not in the spirit that it is generally given.
Entertainment = Enter into attainment of His presence.
In Samuel 6:14-21 David danced with all his might and Michal watched him and thought he was just doing entertainment. She was thinking how the people perceived his dancing. Her eyes were not on God but on man. David admitted to entertainment but his eyes were on Abba. His dancing was entertainment unto the Lord.
Then I was brought in my spirit back to when I was little, maybe 5 or 6, and the neighborhood children put on a play for our parents on the front porch. We dressed up in costumes and had our parts and I don’t even remember what the play was about. But I remember bowing at the end and receiving the applause and seeing the appreciation in the eyes of my parents. I also remembered when I was even younger and putting my head down and attempting to roll over. “Look at me Daddy, Look at me Mommy” And I remember running up to them with a hand full of wilted flowers and giving it to them and basking in their joy of my gift.
Daddy, Momma, Let me entertain you – Let me bring you joy by showing you what I can do…Let me bask in your loving gaze. Look Daddy, Abba, I want to play in your presence.
You see it all depends on your perspective, who you are looking to entertain?
At that time the disciples came to Jesus and said, “Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And He called a child to Himself and set him before them, and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”
Matt 18:1-4
