by Susan Jiosa

Created on: January 05, 2011   Last Updated: May 08, 2011

Humor is a great way to relieve stress and lighten up a bad day that would otherwise seem very dismal. Everyone or most everyone anyway has a sense of humor and enjoys a good laugh from time to time. Since God created us in His image, it is safe to assume that He too has a brilliant sense of humor. 

A good example of God’s sense of humor is taken right off the first few pages of Genesis. In Genesis 3, the story of Adam and Eve eating the apple is told. Granted, the eating of the apple is what changed everything for man, but even at the worst point in mankind’s history, God was able to show His sense of humor. As we all know, God knows everything before it happens. Therefore; He knew beforehand that Adam and Eve would eat the apple from the tree of knowledge. After Eve had persuaded Adam to take a bite from the apple, in an instant everything changed. Before they had eaten the apple, Adam and Eve walked and talked with God through the Garden of Eden with pleasure, ease and comfort. It did not matter to them whether or not they had coverings for their bodies because everything was beautiful and peaceful, loving and warm. Afterwards however, their eyes were open and they felt shame for their nakedness so they hid from God when they heard Him call out for them. Now can you just imagine what God must have been thinking? Here He is, calling out; “Adam, Eve, where are you?” already knowing the answer; yet he called out anyway like a game of hide and seek. Here these two are hiding from the ALL SEEING God; their Creator, Father and Friend. As God continues to call out to them, He is asking them where they are. He let them squirm a bit before calling them out on their sin. By no means is their sin funny, nor did God think so; but he did show a bit of humor by letting them believe they were actually getting away with hiding from Him for a moment or two.

Then there is the story of Jonah. Many lessons have been learned from this short book of the Old Testament. One lesson we definitely learn is that God has a temper towards those who ignore His instructions. The other is that along with His correction, He still manages to mix in a little humor too. To get His point across to Jonah for ignoring His instruction God has Jonah thrown over the side of the ship into a raging storm with waves tossing and turning. Most people would drown in a horrible situation such as this but not Jonah. God sucks him down into the depths of the ocean wrapped in seaweed

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