A “Fascination” is a defined as a powerful attraction to something or someone. We too often have a great fascination with the darkness of the world and little fascination with the great light of God and his Word.
One of the clearest truths in the Bible is in 1 John 1:5-7, “This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.”
We cannot have fellowship and communion with God while our eyes and thoughts are all wrapped up in the entertainments, pleasures, and stuff of this world. That’s why in 1 John 2:15 we read, “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”
I know it is very difficult to keep our minds and hearts off this world, when all around us is the world, and many of our friends, family, and co-workers are all caught up in the world. This world is passing away, it is constantly changing and decaying, and getting further and further from God – why do we care at all about it??? And Almighty God NEVER changes, and He NEVER decays, and His WORD is ALWAYS TRUE! That’s why Paul wrote in Colossians 3:2, “Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.”
I find myself more and more losing complete interest in the things of this world. The more I focus on Jesus Christ and the more I am amazed at His power, His grace, and His love – the more I want to KNOW HIM!! What fascinates us tells a lot about us. I know people who can recite every single line of script from a certain movie or television show, and hardly know a single verse or passage from the Bible by memory, and yet they claim to be a Christian. As TRUE believers in Jesus Christ, we should be so wrapped up in knowing Him, that like Paul we say “Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord” (Philippians 3:8)