Ezekiel 22:4 says you have
become guilty because of the blood you have shed and have become defiled by the
idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close, and the end of your
years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations and
a laughingstock to all the
countries.
Here we see the other end of the spectrum of laughing – when
we ourselves become the subject of mockery and cruelty and others are laughing
at us.
I can’t think of a worse humiliation than to be laughed at
and made fun of…to be bullied.
Yet when we take the life and promises God has given us and over time, we dilute
them with unbelief and mockery at God, by putting other things before Him in
our lives, and then ignoring his presence and walking away from him…we set
ourselves up to be mocked and scorned…and to suffer accordingly.
Sure, there are times when we will be mocked and laughed at
because OF our faith in Him, but when life and others scorn us because we have
deserted the God we proclaim, we are then the object of scorn and God himself
is displeased because we have shamed his name.
Yikes.
I don’t want to be a laughingstock. Do you?
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