God’s Comedic Timing
God is funny.
At the new college i’m attending, South Flordia Revival, our first lesson was very simple. God is good, satan is bad. God is not JUST good. He is ALL THINGS good. He wants us to be joyful, because He is joyful. God is good, satan is bad. Satan is all things bad. He wants us to be miserable. He wants us to do what we want to do and not hold back, because he knows that in the end we will not be fulfilled by our evil desires and will suffer.
I’ve known this for a while, but its got me thinking about comedy. I really like stand up comedy, my favorite movies are comedy movies, and I love more than anything a good, hard laugh. The other night I went to Tom Segura’s show with my Pops. He is so hilarious! Great seeing him live. Its guys like him who have been inspiring me to try out stand up. I’ve been writing material and going to open mic nights recently. Trying to write only clean jokes that are Jesus centered. BOMBING, but going none the less.
So what does any of this have to do with God? Its obvious to me that He is funny. He likes comedy too. Laughing is nothing more than an involuntary impulse of joy. So why is comedy overwhelmingly dirty and sinful? If Yahweh is a God of joy, how is it my joy can come from something so seemingly anti-Godly? This is something I am pondering and don’t think i’ve figured out quite yet. All I can think of is, much like sex, Satan uses Gods greatest creations and perverts them. He takes something that should be beautiful and steals them to make a false, ugly recreation. Why do we let Satan do this to things that should be pure for God? Something as innocent as laughing. Is it a fault of man? Work of satan? Both? I guess we will figure it out in the 4D.
God works in VERY funny ways and He made me do something tonight that I can’t help but to laugh. Ever since the revivalist mission out on the beach, i’ve been telling everybody that will listen that they are worthy and loved by the creator of everything, Jesus. I’ve told more than a dozen people this week including one young woman at 7-eleven.
In my morning prayers for the past 3 days God has told me very clearly to go say something very specific and personal to this one woman who works the night shift at 7-eleven. She has been in my dreams and is highlighted while I pray and journal everyday. The first day I said “ok God, i’ll go tell her what you want her to hear” and then I chickened out. Felt weird about it. Why her? Why say THAT? Next day I said “I’m busy today, I can’t drive all the way across town to be some weirdo”. Today, Happy Thanksgiving BTW, I finally caved and said “ok Lord. You’ve made yourself clear that I must do this”. So tonight after my family dinner I drive over to the gas station to wait for her. Not quite sure when she starts working, but I just started praying and waiting. I can be patient. Eventually I see her walk up, go inside and I start to creep myself out. What am I doing? Why am I here? She’s going to think i’m insane. I take a deep breath, ask God to speak through me clearly and precisely, and I walk in.
I go get a water to buy. Walk up to the counter and start with “hey do you remember me from the other night?” She says “Of course, hi!” with a smile on her face. She told me the other night that she dropped out of school, doesn’t like Jesus and her favorite part of life is death. I start to second guess everything again. What the HECK am I doing? Deep breath… I say “this is going to sound so weird, but the God you claim you don’t believe in told me to come tell YOU something very specific that He says you will understand." She keeps eye contact with me while I tell her something personal and deep about pot and my grandfather. I said that the deliverance I experienced can be her’s too and if she asks Jesus to show Himself in her life that He will. I prayed over her and remind her Jesus cares about her very much and that life will get better. I end it with “have a good night”, she reciprocates the same line.
LOL. WHAT? Why did He ask me to do that? Will it make an impact at all? I believe it will. I very rarely have God tell me to go say something so specific to somebody I only interacted with briefly once. It has to mean something and she is the only one who will understand it. I will continue to pray for her because I see the pain in her eyes. I don’t know what she’s been through but I can tell its been a lot. I see her. Her life can and will get better with Jesus at the helm. As serious and super natural it feels I can only laugh. God is pretty darn funny.
