Don't Laugh At Something God Takes Seriously
"...their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another." Romans 2:15 One way the devil has of getting rid of things is to make jokes about them–and one of the sick jokes you hear is that the conscience is that part of you which makes you sorry when your get caught! There are some things that are not the proper objects of humor, and one of them is conscience. That power of conscience that God has set in the human breast can suddenly isolate a soul, and hang it between heaven and hell, as lonely as if God had never created but one soul–that´s not a joking matter. Remember the conscience is always on God's side–always on God's side! It judges conduct in the light of the moral law, and as the Scripture says, excuses or accuses. The Light that lighted every man that comes into the world is not a joking matter. The eternal, universal Presence of the ...