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Friday, January 07, 2005

Does God make you laugh?

Gen 21:6 (NKJV) - And Sarah said, "God has made me laugh, and all who hear will laugh with me."

The title for this entry was actually the title of Wednesday night's teaching at church. This blew me away. We hear (and rightly so) that God gives us joy, and that joy and happiness are not the same thing. But many times it's almost spun as though joy was the antithesis of happiness. Such is obviously not the case here. Sarah did not say "God filled me with joy." She said "God has made me laugh." And when God makes you laugh, it's a lot better than when Jerry Seinfeld does it.