Obeying The Grace of God: He Commands You To Have Fun, Dang It
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If you’re repenting from sin, that’s all you’re doing: running from it.
Suddenly you have a lot of idle free time and you’re not sure what to do.
How about run back to that sin?
Because that’s what most people do. They don’t know what else to do.
I suppose we could create a Christian subculture ghetto marginalized to the fringes of the mainstream, complete with parties minus alcohol, music minus cursing, and T-shirts with “The Lord’s Gym” and “Faithbook” and “Holy-ster.”
We’ll call it reasonable fun. Within limits. Chaperones needed. BYOB: Bring Your Own Bible.
I know: We’re supposed to repent. Godly sorrow is nothing to joke about. Healing can hurt because it exposes wounds, confesses pain, needs work. The church takes in the grieved, anguished, desperate, lost, confused, angry, addicted, greedy. We should. We fire up the lazy, complacent, lethargic, and wasting. A lot of tears, a lot of holding, tons of loud prayer.
But God commands us to rejoice, dang it. He demands it. He tells us to tell our souls to Get Up. The Bible is somber in parts, of course. But a single thread explodes through its pages: joy, blessing, abundance, eternal rejoicing. At some point we must get there.
