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 luminous Christ is not a joking matter.

    Joke about politics if you must joke–they are usually funny, anyway. But don't joke about God and don't joke about conscience, nor death, nor life, nor love, nor the cross, nor prayer.

    There is legitimate humor in our lives, and I think it is in us by the gift of God. Your sense of humor does not have to dry up and die. There's plenty to laugh at in the world–but be sure you don't laugh at something that God takes seriously. Conscience is one of those things!

A. W. Tozer, Renewed Day By Day 

 

Proverbs 14:9

"Fools make a mock at sin" 

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Fools make a mock of sin – will not believe

Sin carries such a dagger in its sleeve.

"How can it be," they say, "that such a thing 

So full of sweetness could e'er wear a sting?"

They know that that it is sin's very spell

To make poor sinners laugh themselves to hell. 

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Ecclesiastes 7:6  

"For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, 

so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity."