(Proverbs 3:17–18) The ways (paths) of wisdom are pleasure and peace.

Especially with the emergence of television and social media, most modern people are conditioned to seek entertainment in the hope of experiencing pleasure and relaxation.

In fact, today many pastors and churches have adopted entertainment techniques to appeal to and attract the modern mindset. Pastors become comedians and Christian worship must be entertaining, including fog machines that mimic dance clubs.

I am not saying that entertainment in itself is bad or immoral. I am simply emphasizing that the modern entertainment we consume, only produces momentary and surface-level stimulation. Entertainment, in all forms, is a fleeting mental/emotional arousement that does not produce long-term transformation of the heart.

This Proverb is rather surprising for many people because it says that the ways of wisdom (how God created us to live our lives at a very practical, not abstract, way) produce a depth of long-term “pleasure and peace” that modern entertainment cannot produce.

The ways of eternal wisdom produce a deep spiritual enjoyment in life. Unfortunately, we often think of Christian living as self-strife and effort, not in terms of pleasure and peace. But the ways of wisdom produce a heart fulfillment.

I have this caution for you: The consistent us of modern entertainment to stimulate an artificial (or worldly-based) sense of pleasure, can easily quench the more in-depth pleasure of peace that God’s wisdom can produce in our daily lives.

Is your life dominated by modern entertainment? Think about it. Evaluate your life. Begin to prioritize the accumulation, assimilation, and application of God’s wisdom as your true source of daily pleasure and peace.