The life and struggles of a growing Christian- Day Seventy Four

I wasn't sure what I was going to write about this evening so I asked my wife and she quickly and jokingly said back "people being funny". I'm not going to write about people being funny but I do think I'm going to write about the need for a sense of humor. I saw a movie called Amistad, it was a movie about a shipload of African natives that had been kidnapped and sold into slavery by a neighboring tribe. They managed to free themselves on the ship only to be jailed once they arrived in the U.S. While they were in jail awaiting trial (which they won giving them their freedom and returning them home to Africa), a group of Christians kept visiting them from afar, praying and singing hymns, which was a great thing for them to be doing, but they looked so sad and solemn that the main character asked (in subtitles) what was wrong with them. I see many Christians that are in that same condition, walking around being terribly sad and solemn. Jesus died and rose from the grave, freeing us from the penalty of sin, and while that is a very serious thing, in fact, the most important thing ever, we should be happy and jovial. After all, we are going to spend eternity with Jesus in heaven! Why in the world would we want to be miserable? Who would want to join in with a group of people who talk about the kingdom of heaven out of one side of their mouths and talk so serious and glum out of the other? I know that we don't want to live like we did before we found Jesus but we certainly don't want to be critical of everything and everyone either. God has blessed us with a sense of humor for a reason. Life can't be taken so seriously. Laugh with others but especially at yourself as much as possible! Be funny, but do it cleanly (something I am working on) and show all of those nonbelievers that we aren't sad and glum but free and excited and happy about it!