Humor

It is interesting how we use humor to deal with that which is most painful. Yet, that is what wew do. Rachel and I will often joke about being “nuts.” I think it is because if we cannot laugh, then we will spend most of our time crying.

Truth is, life is painful. We live in a fallen world, seperated from our Maker because we chose to sin against Him. We were warned of the consequences, but as is always the case, we disobeyed. It’s like the sign on the park bench that says, “Wet paint;” we just have to reach out and touch it just to see if it really is wet. What do we think, that the owner of the bench is secretly trying to keep us from enjoying sitting on his bench? Who does he think he is anyway?

It really is an old story. Back in the beginning, in the Garden, God told man he could eat from any tree in the Garden except the one called, “The knowledge of Good and Evil.” So the woman was deceived and the man? He chose to deliberately disobey God. Who did He think He was anyway to try and keep us from enjoying eating from His forbidden tree? Was He trying to keep us from something enjoyable? Who did He think He was anyway? So, now we live in a world of our own making and when things go bad guess who we blame?

Yet something wonderful happened. The one who made us came and lived among us. He told us of His great love for us, then demonstrated it by taking our punishment for disobeying Him. Then He rose from the dead and returned to Heaven. Instead of condemning us to an everlastting punishment, He extends to us forgiveness to us and invites us to live with Him simply by believing and accepting what He did for us. That’s all, just by believing.

Jesus makes life worth enduring. Most of us are broken somehow. Most of us have some kind of pain. Almost all of those who post comments here at this site have been hurt, beating, aboused, abandoned, used, and bullied by some one at one time or another.

The abundant life Jesus promised comes from believing Him. Sometimes we are delivered out of the trials; sometimes we are delivered through the trials. Jesus never promised a pain free life; but He did promise to be with us always. And that’s good enough…