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I have several friends with the special gift of an advanced case of a sense of humor and an overwhelming sense of joy.
They are always alive to being alive. One of them not that long ago said, “Sometimes you can sin through dullness as much as you can through vitality” and we both knew what he was talking about.
Such as the fact that a man or woman who cannot laugh may not be super spiritual so much as sub human.
Think on this; a sense of humor not only proves your humanity…it helps it.
I share now a story told about the late Dr. Albert Sweitzer, world renowned missionary and medical doctor; a great man but also a humble man who often used a sense of humor to not let himself get too puffed up with his own importance.
One evening at dinner he said to his wife “Dear, we are going to have to get more serious. We are getting older and we shall have to make less jokes. You know dignity and all that kind of thing. It’s really not becoming to someone of our advanced years, so yes, definitely, we are going to have to become more staid.”
And he then could not go on and broke down in laughter.
Sometimes properly placed non sense makes sense.
One preacher always tried at least for awhile during his morning sermon to make his congregation laugh loud and long because, as he often said, it made it easier to pour some truth down their mouths. “You gotta get em listening before you can get em’ thinking” he was wont to say.
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Psalm 2:4 puts a smile on my soul with the following “He that sitteth in heaven shall laugh.”
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So, yes, laugh at yourself and laugh with others but not at others. Never get so dignified you cannot laugh out loud. Pomposity is a terrible disease.
Indeed, let me close with this thought…A sense of humor gives you a special perspective, my friends, and too large a sense of your own importance does not give you anything.
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"Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves." Philippians 2:3
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A new series on PRAYER has begun on WYRICK’S WRITINGS.
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this blog with a friend copy
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They are changed daily.
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I have several friends with the special gift of an advanced case of a sense of humor and an overwhelming sense of joy.
They are always alive to being alive. One of them not that long ago said, “Sometimes you can sin through dullness as much as you can through vitality” and we both knew what he was talking about.
Such as the fact that a man or woman who cannot laugh may not be super spiritual so much as sub human.
Think on this; a sense of humor not only proves your humanity…it helps it.
I share now a story told about the late Dr. Albert Sweitzer, world renowned missionary and medical doctor; a great man but also a humble man who often used a sense of humor to not let himself get too puffed up with his own importance.
One evening at dinner he said to his wife “Dear, we are going to have to get more serious. We are getting older and we shall have to make less jokes. You know dignity and all that kind of thing. It’s really not becoming to someone of our advanced years, so yes, definitely, we are going to have to become more staid.”
And he then could not go on and broke down in laughter.
Sometimes properly placed non sense makes sense.
One preacher always tried at least for awhile during his morning sermon to make his congregation laugh loud and long because, as he often said, it made it easier to pour some truth down their mouths. “You gotta get em listening before you can get em’ thinking” he was wont to say.
**************************************
Psalm 2:4 puts a smile on my soul with the following “He that sitteth in heaven shall laugh.”
**************************************
So, yes, laugh at yourself and laugh with others but not at others. Never get so dignified you cannot laugh out loud. Pomposity is a terrible disease.
Indeed, let me close with this thought…A sense of humor gives you a special perspective, my friends, and too large a sense of your own importance does not give you anything.
*************************************
"Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves." Philippians 2:3
*************************************
A new series on PRAYER has begun on WYRICK’S WRITINGS.
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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