"DOES GOD HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR?"
The Dictionary defines a “sense of humor” as “The ability to perceive, enjoy, or express what is comical or funny.” According to this definition, God must show an ability to perceive, enjoy, or express what is comical. The difficulty is that people perceive what is comical differently, and what sinful man perceives as funny would not make God smile. Much of what the world calls humor is not really funny but is crude, suggestive, disrespectful and should have no part in a Christian’s life (Colossians 3:8). Other humor is expressed at the expense of others (tearing down rather than building up), again something goes against God’s Word (Colossians 4:6).
A person does not tell jokes in the presence of one who has just lost a close loved one; silly jokes are out of place on these occasions. In the same way, God is focused on the lost and is looking for those who will care for their souls as He does. That is why our lives (yet having times of refreshing and wholesome humor) are to be marked by “soberness” (seriousness about making our lives count for Christ) (1 Thessalonians 5:6,8).
Proverbs 15:13
A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit.
Remember that laughter is God's medicines for
each of us to take as prescribed.
Pastor Stuart Briscoe of Elmbrook church talks on the topic of humor.
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