Monday, September 12, 2011

Did Jesus Laugh At Himself?

       I don't like everything about Mel Gibson's, The Passion of the Christ, but I smiled at the clip where Jesus, the carpenter, is making a tall table and His mother ridicules it because all tables of the day were low to the ground and without chairs. I wonder if He made mistakes as He learned the carpenter trade? Did His goofs give Him a chuckle? 
      For some people, even talking about Jesus in those terms seems sacriligious, like people think Jesus wouldn't have needed to LEARN anything...but I don't agree. John 1:14 (written originally in Greek) says, "The Logos became Sarx and lived among us."  Sarx is the Greek word used for "flesh." It's the word Paul used when he wrote about the wars between the Flesh and the Spirit. The big argument for hundreds and hundreds of years (now too) was about whether Jesus was fully man and fully God --- and could He have sinned? Personally, I believe He could have or Satan wouldn't have wasted his time on Jesus! The writer of Hebrews says Jesus was like us, except He didn't sin.
      So, did He laugh at Himself?
      What about you? Do you laugh at yourself or do you get angry at yourself when you mess up? Promise not to laugh too loud if I tell you one?
      I knew it would happen one day---that's a self-fulfilling prophecy. In the cabinet in my bathroom are 3 shelves. The bottom one contains a couple bottles of refreshing after-shower spray. On the 2nd shelf is a bottle of hairspray. Yep---it happened today---grabbed the wrong one and had to get back in the shower!
      Okay --- you can laugh...He's probably grinning too!

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