These past couple of weeks I’ve been really convicted about how much sarcasm dominates my humor. Maybe I’m just now noticing it because I’m not around my friends that I probably caught it from anymore, maybe I’m noticing it more and more because I’ve been praying and asking God to show me where I am un-Christ like, or maybe my humor has just always been like this. I suppose I never thought it was bad because it was always clever and around people that would join in and laugh with me, and if I ever really hurt someone, I could just tack on my favorite “Oh, I’m sorry, I was just kidding” phrase and all would be forgiven. So this morning during chapel, we were singing the bridge to “Came to the Rescue” by Hillsong over and over and over. Seriously, we must have sung it at least 10 times. But it was so powerful because it got louder and stronger and more sincere each time, so by the tenth time, you’re seeing people yelling and pumping their fists and praying, “In my life, be lifted high! In our world, be lifted high! In our love, be lifted high!” And I stopped singing because I realized that my Lord is not lifted high in my humor, He is not lifted high in my homework, He is not lifted high in my attitude. He must be high. He demands to be lifted high.
“Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I am only joking!’” -Proverbs 26:18-19
“Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.” –Proverbs 19:14
“See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.” -Hebrews 3:12-13
