Legitimate Pleasure

In my last blog, I noted a quote from F.W. Boreham.  In that quote, he gave us three principles to follow in determining or helping us determine the healthy from the unhealthy.

Today, the wisdom we seek involves legitimate pleasure.

Our definition will be:
Any pleasure that refreshes you without diminishing you, distracting you, or side-tracking you from the ultimate goal is a legitimate pleasure

First requirement would be to establish the purpose of life itself. Second requirement would be to establish a philosophy of life. Now we have points of reference for all choices – distinguishing between fulfillment and disappointment, fun and destructiveness.

Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard: He learned to define life backward and live it forward – the destiny he sought became the dictator of the direction to choose.  That is no different then to how I create a project management flowchart for my business.

Susanna Wesley, who had nineteen children which included John and Charles Wesley had this definition.

“Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, whatever increases the authority of the body over the mind, that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may seem in itself." 

Our message is simple: The places to which we go, the friendships we embrace, the language we use, the shows we watch, the books we read, the thoughts we entertain – all must be aligned with the purpose to which we are called by God.