Why is it that video games can be so appealing and captivating? The idea of being immersed into a world of struggle for good and evil, the chance to save the world from the evil whatever trying to destroy it, the chance to have courage in the face of potential doom … Those are often my reasons at least.
What I don’t get is this: those reasons are only different from reality if you choose to ignore the realities of the world we live in.
This world, this life, everyone is constantly either in a state of tension, struggle, battle, or in a state of being manipulated and controlled. Satan is described in John (14:30) and the prince of this world. If you choose to be passive, to indulge in the enemy’s “logic”, or be ignore the important things in life, you might not be in a struggle. However, you’re just another puppet of evil. Just on of those random nameless bad guys in the video game that simply do what they’re told.
There’s so much about God that isn’t understood by so many people in this world. What’s that tell you… there’s so much good missing in the world! We have a chance, in THIS life, to be that RPG hero who does good and saves live. And it makes a world of difference! Why would anybody ever choose to help a cluster of pixels over a person? Why sop there? Why is watching a movie, reading a book, watching TV occasionally more appealing than the real world of real issues that we live in?
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