Jesse Tree Devotional for December 4th

December 4

LAUGH!

Today's reading: Genesis 21:1-7
And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me. And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.

Laughter is such a relief---from the tension, the stress, the weight of it all. I don’t laugh when in the death grip strangle of sin.

But You have come, Lord God. And now I can. I can throw my head back and let waves of joy just shake me down. God, You have been gracious, just as You said. You have done it all, just as You promised.

Yes, God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears of the release of the sinners will laugh with me! Who would have thought that the likes of me would ever experience such grace?

It’s laughable—gloriously, wondrously, ecstatically unexpected!

Lord, You come…so we can laugh at the sheer bliss of freedom.