I'm careful about humor these days, as I have a serious calling, but, I did laugh at Mailmandan's list of 10--
and the "cat scan..."
and the sign, "live your life so folks won't have to lie at your funeral"
and all the efforts to ease tension here with humor...
It's not always easy to see what is mature humor or not, or fitting to be used for a Christian purpose. It's all too easy to end up mocking God and dishonoring the dire seriousness of the state of the world. But, occasionally, I believe humor is sent by God, not to entertain, but to relieve stress or convey a serious message or deflect serious discipline (cushion the impact of deserved discipline);
But, for saved Christians, in good standing with God, Jesus does say to be lively in fellowship, which he referred to as "salt," seasoning fellowship with upbeat motivation, that some leaders have a gift for. But, the Apostles were very human, even though they had a very, deadly serious mission in life-- life and death, heaven and hell. They likely found a few lighter moments to ease the stress and suffering. But, when they wrote-- it was deadly serious.
Personally this needed to be said, since in the past, I was way off target at times with humor.
But the right words from a friend or family or church member or in here, real-life stuff, can really make your day and can be a God-send, and relieve stress for a whole day.
In the chat rooms, we have had some crazy times of just insanity chatting-- but, usually (hopefully) it was to make a serious point.
This was a real-life situation: It sounded like angelic serious advice with just a hint of serious, but, lighter teaching.
I was very stressed out, and, finally said out loud one day--
"But I KNOW God is still WINNING!!"
I thought I heard in my mind--a sort of frustrated, but patient reply meant to inspire--
I thought I heard: "KNOCK ON WOOD!!"
The message being that of course God is still winning. And it helped that day.
A missionary with a lot of zeal, and that's a great thing! Was knocking on doors at 6:00 AM and waking up people with the Gospel message. That's a great way to reach people too if you are brave enough. The tired person slowly shuffles to the door after 10 minutes of non-stop knocking, half-asleep in his house robe, and faces the young man shouting at him:
"ARE YOU GOING TO HEAVEN WHEN YOU DIE?!!" The tired man, finally waking up, rubbing his eyes just says:
"I don't know..."
"Are you gonna to be there?"
A Bumper-sticker spotted on a police-chief's squad car:
"Yes, I do own the whole road."
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