Does God have a sense of humor?

Before every show, we sing the old school song, 'I've Got Joy, down in my heart. Deep, deep, down in my heart.' And we honestly believe that God has a great sense of humor. Go ahead and look at the world around us. God must laugh! When Jesus walked the earth, people followed Him. They followed Him for a lot of reasons: Jesus is God, He healed, He was a great teacher and yes, I believe they followed because He had a great sense of humor. Show me where it says that in the Bible?

Well, we do know that God made us in His own image. And God made us with emotions and feelings and one of those emotions is laughter. So I have to think that God does laugh. And I think Jesus said some funny things for sure.

The hard thing to figure is what makes God laugh and what doesn't.

He is a holy God and so his humor is a little different than ours.

Much of what the world calls humor is not funny but is crass and crude and should have no part in a Christian’s life (Colossians 3:8).

Other humor is expressed at the expense of others (tearing down rather than building up), again something contrary to God’s Word (Colossians 4:6; Ephesians 4:29).

So I struggle with keeping in the lines of God's humor.

But I do believe that God laughs and I do believe that Christians do need to laugh more. We could relax more and learn to  enjoy life. But let us try not to offend a holy God in the process.

Laugh more!