Archives at Zinester: Laughter. Off-the-church-walls. Humor & Jokes

God created the gift of laughter. The Bible includes dozens of humorous situations: smelly shepherds who become kings and deliverers, a disobedient Jonah in the belly of a fish with only two possibilities to get out, a talking donkey, and an army of soldiers walking silently around Jericho. Ecclesiastes 3:4 reminds us that there is a time to weep and a time to laugh. Jesus himself says, "Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh" (Luke 6:21b). When God fulfilled his promise and gave Sarah a son when she was well past the age of child-bearing and her husband, Abraham, was a hundred years old, Sarah said, "God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me" (Genesis 21:6).

Ask God to help you look on the light side of your situation this week.