Hi Everybody,
Now I know what half of you out there are going to say: "If I can't be sarcastic, I'd pretty much drop dead on the spot."
Now let's be honest. I too can most certainly be the Queen of Sarcasm--my best example is when a woman was mad at me for apparently messing up her sure-fire lotto tickets at work, threatening me with, "If those numbers ain't right, I'm gonna have ta knock ya ta Europe!" I looked her straight in the eye and said, "Well, I've already been to Europe, so you're going to have to choose another place. "
She then proceeded with, "Well, then I'll just knock ya back ta China, where ya came from," to which I calmly replied, "I'm not from China."
This then led to her asking the infamous question: "Where are you from?" (THE question of all questions that will trigger a sarcastic response from me if asked sarcastically to begin with,) to which I gave my soon-to-be trademarked reply: "Where are YOU from?" (Funny thing... it took her ten minutes of rambling... she named every place she'd ever lived, then finally a continent, but never could tell me what country or ethnic background she originated from.)
Granted, if my boss had heard this... I'm sure I would have been in some trouble.
And therefore, we arrive to my question for this thread--does God give you little pokes and prods as to when you "go overboard"? What happens when you say some really sarcastic things and you KNOW you hurt someone's feelings--how do you deal with it? And what do you do when others make sarcastic remarks towards you that really hurt YOUR feelings?
The thing that made me think of this was a pastor who once told us that God was dealing with him over his use of sarcasm towards people, as well as the fact that my most sarcastic friends are the ones who seem to have the most guys after them. Sarcasm=total attraction??? (Unfortunately, it hasn't worked for me yet.)
I also find it interesting in the Bible that there are many incidences in which God asks a person, (Adam, for example) "Where are you?"; "Who are these men you're with?" (Balaam, the false prophet); or, in other cases, God asks the equivalent of, "What are you up to right now?" as if He didn't actually know.
Now, please don't misread this--I don't want anyone going around saying, "Seoulsearch is saying that God is sarcastic!!" But, what I find intriguing is that we are made in the image of God--so I am guessing that sarcasm is a characteristic based upon something in God's own personality, though as human beings, we certainly tend to get it messed up.
Some people seem to think that as Christians, we can only say loving things that are the equivalent of verbal roses, sunshine, and butterflies, no matter what happens. As much as I wish I could say I sound loving all the time, many times, I fall off the wagon.
What about you? Where do you think sarcasm fits in your role of being a Christian? Not that YOU would ever know anything about sarcasm... and not that I'M being sarcastic.
Now I know what half of you out there are going to say: "If I can't be sarcastic, I'd pretty much drop dead on the spot."
Now let's be honest. I too can most certainly be the Queen of Sarcasm--my best example is when a woman was mad at me for apparently messing up her sure-fire lotto tickets at work, threatening me with, "If those numbers ain't right, I'm gonna have ta knock ya ta Europe!" I looked her straight in the eye and said, "Well, I've already been to Europe, so you're going to have to choose another place. "
She then proceeded with, "Well, then I'll just knock ya back ta China, where ya came from," to which I calmly replied, "I'm not from China."
This then led to her asking the infamous question: "Where are you from?" (THE question of all questions that will trigger a sarcastic response from me if asked sarcastically to begin with,) to which I gave my soon-to-be trademarked reply: "Where are YOU from?" (Funny thing... it took her ten minutes of rambling... she named every place she'd ever lived, then finally a continent, but never could tell me what country or ethnic background she originated from.)
Granted, if my boss had heard this... I'm sure I would have been in some trouble.
And therefore, we arrive to my question for this thread--does God give you little pokes and prods as to when you "go overboard"? What happens when you say some really sarcastic things and you KNOW you hurt someone's feelings--how do you deal with it? And what do you do when others make sarcastic remarks towards you that really hurt YOUR feelings?
The thing that made me think of this was a pastor who once told us that God was dealing with him over his use of sarcasm towards people, as well as the fact that my most sarcastic friends are the ones who seem to have the most guys after them. Sarcasm=total attraction??? (Unfortunately, it hasn't worked for me yet.)
I also find it interesting in the Bible that there are many incidences in which God asks a person, (Adam, for example) "Where are you?"; "Who are these men you're with?" (Balaam, the false prophet); or, in other cases, God asks the equivalent of, "What are you up to right now?" as if He didn't actually know.
Now, please don't misread this--I don't want anyone going around saying, "Seoulsearch is saying that God is sarcastic!!" But, what I find intriguing is that we are made in the image of God--so I am guessing that sarcasm is a characteristic based upon something in God's own personality, though as human beings, we certainly tend to get it messed up.
Some people seem to think that as Christians, we can only say loving things that are the equivalent of verbal roses, sunshine, and butterflies, no matter what happens. As much as I wish I could say I sound loving all the time, many times, I fall off the wagon.
What about you? Where do you think sarcasm fits in your role of being a Christian? Not that YOU would ever know anything about sarcasm... and not that I'M being sarcastic.
