And I laugh

It is the correct response

Laughter can sometimes be

Divisive and cynical

OR

Joyful and humorous

Both Sarah and Abraham

Laughed the laughter of scorn and ridicule when they 1st heard the promise of God.

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

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.

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

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

I once despaired & try as I might

Was without any

knowledge of hope

For my nature was as dry

Withered

Barren

Accursed as a howling wilderness

So it is beyond

All natural rules &

expectation that

Even I have been made

to bring forth fruit

unto holiness.

Well may my mouth

be filled with

joyous laughter

Because of this

I have received, of the Lord Jesus, singular &

surprising grace

For I have found Jesus Christ

He is the promised seed

He is mine for ever

I’m like Sarah& I will laugh

because the Son is born

This day & every day

I will lift up psalms of triumph unto the Lord

I will laugh, sing songs and rejoice

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.

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

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

~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.

I want all those who hear of

My great deliverance from hell

My most blessed encounter & visitation from on high

To laugh with me

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

Bunyan tells us

That Christianna heard Mercy laugh in her sleep, and no wonder when she

dreamed of Jesus

My joy shall not be less

Nor will my joy & laughter stop short of

hers

My Beloved is the theme of

my daily thoughts

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

Sarah looked on her Isaac

She laughed with excess of rapture & joy

All her friends laughed with her

And You, my soul, look on our Jesus

Call – yes bid heaven and earth unite in

your joy unspeakable and full of glory

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

Is it any wonder

• That we who know the Lord Jesus should laugh?