The Good and the Bad Laughter

               To everything there is a season, a time 

         for every purpose under heaven: a time to weep, 

         and a time to laugh. Ecclesiastes 3:1,4

      Read: Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8

              Doctors and psychologyists tell us that laughter 

      is good for us. This is undoubtedly true, because the 

      Bible says that "a merry heart does good, like medicine

      ( Proverb17:22).

       

      But the Scripture make a distinction between good 

      and bad laughter. The author of Ecclesiastes declared 

      that the laughter of people who have no place for God 

      in their lives has no more value than the noise of crack-

      Ling thorns in a fire ( Ecclesiastes 7:6). God disapproves 

      of any humor That  belittle people or makes light of imm-

      orall Sin is never a laughting matter.

      Joe E. Brown was  a top notch movie and broadway 

      comedian of the World War II era . When entertaining 

      American troops in the south pacific, he was asked  

      by a soldier to tell some dirty jokes. He responded, " son, 

      a comedian like me lives for applause and laughter but if 

      telling a dirty story is the price I must pay for your laughter, 

      then I'm not interested. I've never done un act that I couldn't 

      perform before my mother , and I never will. The soldier 

      rocked the jungle with their cheers.

      Lord, give us a merry heart. And help us be discerning so that 

      We  will laught for the for the right reason and about the right 

      Things.

                    

                           LAughter is like music 

                            that lingers in the heart:

                           And when its melody is heard

                           The ill of life depart