God’s Sense Of Humour

God has a sense of humour.

When I consider how things go and then take a look back and see what the fuss was about, i.e. nothing, then it shows just what a great sense of humour God has.

Take yesterday, for example. You ever have one of those days where it appears as though anything that could go wrong would go wrong, when you didn’t need it to go wrong on that day of all days? Well that was the kind of day I had. As ever in these scenarios, it is not one event that consumes, it is a number of them, some unrelated that accumulates into a recipe for disaster. It was not the most pleasant day in my life.

From morning til evening one mishap after another followed on from one frustration after another piled up. The nearest and dearest chip in, work makes its contribution, finance obviously must play a part and some innocuous seemingly insignificant issue suddenly is the straw that breaks the camel’s back. With blunt honesty, I confess to you, that one point in the evening, I was more than ready to commit an act of physical aggression featuring the fatal end of a plate in the secluded area of my garage. It was a surprise to one onlooker who knew me to be as violent as the Greatest Hits of Barry Manilow. Still that’s what those days can do to you.

As I was contemplating such courses of action, of course this was the day that my Dad had his birthday. On calling him up, he proceeds to gently encourage me to excercise patience and restraint, particularly in my engagements with my children. This came without me saying anything about the type of day I had. My Dad’s words had an effect far beyond my own fathering. I heard the voice of my Dad echo the sentiments of my heavenly Father to be a man who lives in peace, because His being is filled with the Prince of Peace.

On receiving these words, my dark clouds abated, giving way to a meek, contrite and more gentle frame of being. And at that point I was able to reflect on it and see the folly and futility of it all. I chuckled once more at God’s sense of humour. All this stuff that gets me wound up, one day will pass away. One day I will shuffle from this mortal coil leaving all these issues behind. Heaven and earth will pass away, but the Word of God will remain. So if I am going to get wound up about anything, I might as well get wound up with the realities of His Lovingkindness that is even better than life. That puts things into perspective.

For His Name’s Sake

Shalom

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