Over-righteous?
I was thinking the other day – how reverence for God has dwindled greatly.
But is quickly restored when He shows up!
We are natural beings. Contaminated with a disease called sin. We can speculate, philosophy, or theological-ise about the things of God, finding fault with what we don’t understand but…
Our opinions mean nothing when God shows up.
“Where is He?” The skeptic, agnostic or atheist asks.
You will know one day – if not before!
Paul the apostle says on one occasion:
When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? (Or fickleness)
Life is a serious business. But there is a part of our humanness we should embrace. We can sternly set ourselves to be religious – stiff upper lip and all that, but this is not necessarily spiritual, or of merit.
The fact is – humour exists.
Sometimes the most godly humans are those who have a ‘jolly’ outlook. They realise there is a time for everything under the sun.
They can compose themselves and meditate upon their awesome Heavenly Father.
And (-yes) when God shows up – all lightness and fickleness goes. (But the Joy of The Lord remains).
Sometimes when we write on the serious and awesome things of God – some might not take us seriously when we don’t wear a frown. Perhaps in their hearts accusing us of phoney-ism, because we can also write on the lighter things of life.
Sometimes it’s true that there is a fine line between fun, laughter, humour – and foolish jesting. (Eph. 5/4). Know where the line is and don’t cross it.
There is a Scripture that comes to mind:
Ecclesiastes 7:16
Do not be over-righteous neither be over-wise – why destroy yourself?
What the scripture is not saying is that unrighteousness is ok. But it is reminding us that there is none good, but God. And that our own righteousness is as filthy rags.
According to (I Cor. 8/1) knowledge puffs up. It is good to try to – not take ourselves too seriously – even if we have been shown a few things, lest we are puffed-up with pride and enter into Pharisee-ism.
Paul was aware of this danger and said:
2 Corinthians 12:7 (Amp.)
7 Because of the surpassing greatness and extraordinary nature of the revelations [which I received from God], for this reason, to keep me from thinking of myself as important, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan, to torment and harass me—to keep me from exalting myself!
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