HUMOR

What you laugh at has a lot to do with the way you regard yourself.

I love people with a great sense of humor.  Some people are so natural at this.  I envy them.

I've also been around people who painfully use their sense of humor to put everybody around them down. They do it to deliberately to mock or belittle others.

Ultimately sarcastic humor is self-righteous - it's a form of self-justification.  I'll tear you down in an effort to make myself more valuable.  This is what the Gospel demolishes.

There are others who bitterly mock themselves.  At first it looks like a form of humility but it's as self-absorbed as the above version.  It's a sign of a profound spiritual restlessness.

We must keep our lives from either being over-awed by anyone or being under-awed by ourselves.

It's so good to have a Godly, healthy sense of who we are in Christ and a healthy sense of humor.  But it's always to be humor that builds the other up as a show of affection.

And be blessed.