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| Written by Steven Cuffle | |
| Sunday, 24 June 2007 | |
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The words that we use to describe our actions sometimes contain much more meaning than we realize. That’s one of the interesting things about the English language – it has been “alive” for so long that many words no longer convey their original ideas. One of those words is “amusement”. If we can push movies, video games and rollercoasters from our minds for just a minute, we can examine what the word originally meant. The prefix “a-” means “not” or “without.” Whatever the rest of the word means, we are dealing with its absence. The suffix “-ment” means “a state or condition resulting from a specified action.” The middle is the key to our understanding: "muse". Muse means “to think; to become absorbed in thought; to meditate.” A-muse-ment, then, is “the state that results from not thinking or meditating.” Isn’t it interesting that as our nation becomes more and more obsessed with entertaining itself that it becomes less and less interested in God? Could it be that our speech betrays us? Rather than thinking about God, pondering the wonders of His creation, or studying the “words of life”, we are all too busy finding ways to “be without thought”, finding ways to be “amused”. Perhaps we ought to take Paul’s commandment to heart when he says: “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, THINK about these things.” (Philippians 4.8)
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