HUMOR:
PROPER PLACE OF

We should all be aware by this time that one way the devil has of getting rid of something is to make jokes about it. Every one of us needs to be warned often about the corruption of our minds by the papers and magazines and entertainment.

There is a legitimate humor, and we all admit that. I think a sense of humor is in us by the gift of God.

But whenever that humor takes a holy thing as its object, that humor is devilish at once.…

There is plenty to laugh at in the world, including politics—which is usually funny anyway. But be sure that you do not laugh at something that God Himself takes very seriously.

Matthew 12:34–37; Romans 13:11–14; Ephesians 5:3–4

Echoes from Eden, 61, 62.