JUST LAUGH
When was the last time you laughed? I donÂ’t mean just a quiet passing chuckle or quick giggle thatÂ’s over before you know it. The laughter that IÂ’m referring to is full, coming all the way from down inside your being; the type that rocks your whole body so much that you feel as if youÂ’re going to die laughing. ItÂ’s the kind of laughter that leaves you crying and out of breath. Well then for todayÂ’s FF, I want to encourage you to JUST LAUGH.
Laughter is contagious. You see somebody laughing and you donÂ’t know why or what theyÂ’re laughing at and you just begin to LAUGH too. There are some comedians that from the time you see them, even before they open their mouths you have to JUST LAUGH. And yet if laughter is contagious, I sometimes wonder why more people are not laughing. What I find even more amazing is the lack of laughter among followers of Christ and especially not during worship. ItÂ’s almost as though when weÂ’re worshipping God our understanding of being reverent before God means thatÂ’s there no place for laughter.
But hereÂ’s what IÂ’ve discovered. When you remember the wonderful work that God has done in your life and how GodÂ’s goodness, mercy, favour and blessing are over-running you, sometimes thereÂ’s only one thing to do and itÂ’s to JUST LAUGH. When you consider what you now have and even though it may not seem to be much, but still it is more than, then you canÂ’t help but JUST LAUGH. When God has allowed you to be a witness to the miraculous and the mysterious, what other response can spring forth from you but to JUST LAUGH.
Laughter has healing virtue. For one thing it lowers our stress and for that time when weÂ’re laughing we forget the pain. Laughter somehow connects us to a sense of hope where we begin to believe again that the impossible is possible. Laughter lightens earthÂ’s heaviest sorrows even at the passing of a loved one when we recall an experience that causes us to JUST LAUGH. Laughter is a sign that a broken relationship is restored when youÂ’re able to LAUGH again with someone you might have considered an enemy once.
Now let me sound a note of warning, laughter and joy are not the same. Joy can be expressed in laughter but even if thereÂ’s nothing to LAUGH about we can still be joy-full because of whose we are in Christ. Plus when you LAUGH make sure that youÂ’re not laughing at others in a way to ridicule or lessen their self-worth. God laughed (Psalm 59:8). Jesus, being fully human, must have laughed. Sarah laughed at the news that she would be pregnant in her old age (Gen. 18:13). Ecclesiastes 3:4 tells us that there is a time to mourn and a time to LAUGH.
So till next Friday, GodÂ’s willing, make some time to JUST LAUGH. So when a circumstance arises that looks to be getting the better of you, look at that situation and remember JUST LAUGH. It could give you a whole new perspective! So JUST LAUGH!
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Mikie Roberts (Rev)
But hereÂ’s what IÂ’ve discovered. When you remember the wonderful work that God has done in your life and how GodÂ’s goodness, mercy, favour and blessing are over-running you, sometimes thereÂ’s only one thing to do and itÂ’s to JUST LAUGH. When you consider what you now have and even though it may not seem to be much, but still it is more than, then you canÂ’t help but JUST LAUGH. When God has allowed you to be a witness to the miraculous and the mysterious, what other response can spring forth from you but to JUST LAUGH.
Laughter has healing virtue. For one thing it lowers our stress and for that time when weÂ’re laughing we forget the pain. Laughter somehow connects us to a sense of hope where we begin to believe again that the impossible is possible. Laughter lightens earthÂ’s heaviest sorrows even at the passing of a loved one when we recall an experience that causes us to JUST LAUGH. Laughter is a sign that a broken relationship is restored when youÂ’re able to LAUGH again with someone you might have considered an enemy once.
Now let me sound a note of warning, laughter and joy are not the same. Joy can be expressed in laughter but even if thereÂ’s nothing to LAUGH about we can still be joy-full because of whose we are in Christ. Plus when you LAUGH make sure that youÂ’re not laughing at others in a way to ridicule or lessen their self-worth. God laughed (Psalm 59:8). Jesus, being fully human, must have laughed. Sarah laughed at the news that she would be pregnant in her old age (Gen. 18:13). Ecclesiastes 3:4 tells us that there is a time to mourn and a time to LAUGH.
So till next Friday, GodÂ’s willing, make some time to JUST LAUGH. So when a circumstance arises that looks to be getting the better of you, look at that situation and remember JUST LAUGH. It could give you a whole new perspective! So JUST LAUGH!
.
Mikie Roberts (Rev)
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