there is reason to laugh in life when you know the meaning of life

1. And I laugh
It is the correct response

2. Laughter can sometimes be
Divisive and cynical
OR
Joyful and humorous

3. Both Sarah and Abraham
Laughed the laughter of scorn
and ridicule when they 1st
heard the promise of God.

4. God kept his promise
And their scornful laughter turned to
joyful laughter
This is the laughter that we
experience as we receive by faith the
Grace of God and Jesus Christ

5. All that hear will laugh with me
Genesis 21:6 KJV
6 And Sarah said, God hath made me
to laugh, so that all that hear will
laugh with me.

6. Far above the power of nature
& contrary to all its laws
That Sarah old & dried up
Should have a baby
& become a mother to a son

7. It is also beyond all ordinary rules
That I, a poor, helpless, undone
sinner
Should find grace to bear about in my
soul the indwelling Spirit of the Lord
Jesus

8. I once despaired
& try as I might
Was
without any
knowledge
of hope

9. For my nature was as dry
Withered
Barren
Accursed as a howling wilderness

10. So it is beyond
All natural
rules &
expectation
that
Even I have
been made
to bring
forth fruit
unto
holiness.

11. Well may my mouth
be filled
with
joyous
laughter

12. Because of this
I have received, of the
Lord Jesus, singular &
surprising grace

13. For I have found Jesus Christ
He is the
promised seed
He is mine for
ever

14. I’m like Sarah
& I will laugh
because the Son is
born

15. This day & every day
I will lift up psalms of triumph unto the Lord
I will laugh, sing songs and rejoice

16. Yes The Lord has remembered me
The Lord has remembered my
low & lost estate
God the father in love has sent his son, the Lord
Jesus, to die and rise again so that I, believing in
him, might receive forgiveness for my sins and be
made anew creature in Christ.

17. I laugh – I rejoice
For my heart rejoices in the Lord
My horn is exalted in the Lord
My mouth is enlarged over mine enemies
Because I rejoice in thy salvation

18. I tell you all that I will laugh
Laugh more than those great women of old
Sarah – having a son when there was no
natural hope
Miriam – dancing & laughing at the end of her
slavery
Hannah – presenting the son of her dreams

19. ~Hannah's Song of Thanksgiving
• [KJV] [1SA 2:1] And Hannah prayed, and said,
My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is
exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged
over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy
salvation.

20. I want all those who hear of
My great deliverance from hell
My most blessed encounter & visitation
from on high
To laugh with me

21. I want them to laugh for joy with me
I would surprise my family with my abundant peace
I would delight my friends with my ever-increasing
happiness
I would edify the Church with my grateful confessions
I even intend to impress the world with the
cheerfulness of my daily conversation

22. Bunyan tells us
That Christianna heard
Mercy laugh in her sleep,
and no wonder when she
dreamed of Jesus

23. My joy shall not be less
Nor will my
joy & laughter
stop short of
hers
My Beloved is
the theme of
my daily
thoughts

24. The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy
My soul dives into its
depths
I am swallowed up in the
delights of his company

25. Sarah looked on her Isaac
She laughed with excess of rapture & joy
All her friends laughed with her

26. And You, my soul, look on our Jesus
Call – yes bid heaven
and earth unite in
your joy unspeakable
and full of glory

27. That you might be found
• ….. Unto praise and honour and glory at the
appearing of Jesus Christ: whom having not
seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see
him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy
unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the
end of your faith, even the salvation of your
souls. 1Pe 1:7-9

28. Is it any wonder
• That we who know the Lord
Jesus should laugh?