Laughing is an expression of an emotion. People laugh for many different reasons. People laugh when they are in a happy environment, with family and friends, watching a movie with funny jokes, and sometimes people even laugh by themselves when they remember something funny that happened months ago.
Likewise, people also cry. People cry when they are sad, they cry when they are hurt, people even cry when watching a sad movie. All these are ways of expressing what you feel.
When it comes to faith, it has nothing to do with feelings or emotions. Don’t get me wrong, there is a time to cry and a time to laugh, even the Bible says this. However, when it comes to faith, there are no emotions or feelings involved.
Take a look at the difference below between faith vs. emotions.
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
(Genesis 18:11-12)
Sarah laughed because of a lack of faith. When you use faith, you have this boldness to believe and demand from God what He promised in His Word. Because of this action (laughing), she could not see herself having a child at her age, so she laughed (emotion). Why are you laughing is like saying in other words, why are you using your emotions?
Look at the difference between faith and emotions. Abraham lived by faith. Abraham sacrificed through faith and received boldness and experienced the supernatural power of God!
And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,
(Romans 4:19-20)
Don’t laugh. Believe in God and believe in yourself. Take God at His Word. Take an action of faith and you too will experience the supernatural power of God.
May the God of the Bible bless you. Bishop Joshua Fonseca
