Saturday, July 30, 2011

The Best Medicine

Too often, we take ourselves too seriously and we don’t take God seriously enough. In fact, that’s one of the things that kept me from going into the ministry for a while. Too many pastors are so serious and boring and monotonous.  I thought to myself, “I don’t want any of that!”

As I read God’s Word more, though, I realized that God wants us to laugh. And I'm so thankful to have friends in life and in ministry who aren't afraid to laugh along with me.

God being God could have decided that our prevailing attitude should be one of boredom and solemn-ness and seriousness. But he didn't!  Throughout his Word, God has told us that one of the telltale signs that we know Jesus Christ is our outrageous, contagious joy.  And a by product of joy is... laughter.  So it is good to laugh!

When was the last time you just let lose and had a great laugh?