Laughter To Come

Blessed are you who hunger now,
For you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now,
For you shall laugh.  Luke 6:21

Tales of sin and woe abound in the Bible. Finding a funny story is not at all easy. It seems like something is missing. Someone ate a fruit that was forbidden to her and shared it with her mate, and then we found many years later that laughter was uncommon in the Bible. Do you suppose there is a connection? The Bible is a serious collection of books for a serious problem: man became separated from his Creator by that one rebellion. The central man in this collection of books, Jesus, came to Earth on a serious mission: to save us from our sin and the punishment it carries. Put away the Bible? Turn to the news of the world? Okay, after reading the news of the Earth, we are now counted among the weeping ones. Good thing we have the promise from our Lord Jesus of laughter to come. It seems so alien to us to just laugh with the Lord in the peace and love of His presence. Sure we laugh at ourselves, each other , the strange antics of politicians, and the comedy of the performer, but how often do we just laugh because we feel the love of the Lord in this life? Still carrying too many of those burdens maybe? Yes, me too.

Weeping over this world, we rejoice in one of the great promises from His word: for you shall laugh.

Bucky