Lately several people have asked me to define or describe a sense of humor. A couple of other people asked me to discuss the Holy Spirit. These two topics seem to be on opposite ends of a spectrum, but I think I can bring them together.
There are three types of humor: Sarcastic humor that we should avoid because it is hurtful; belly-laugh humor---joke telling or funny behavior; and the highest form of humor, cosmic humor which is the ability to laugh at ourselves, not take ourselves so seriously, and have child-like play in our daily lives. Cosmic humor is a spirit of joy.
All of us are like ducks gliding over the visible lake while paddling frenetically in unseen waters. We look good, smell good, and act good on the outside, but deep down, hidden from others, we have concerns, insecurities, worries. That's kind of funny in a cosmic humor sort of way. When we see those who seem almost perfect we can remind ourselves they are just ducks like the rest of us.
Now to the Holy Spirit. To me Holy Spirit power fires the soul with ardor, zeal, fervency for God's love and animates vigor for fruitful living. And then there is the soft, silent sense of the Holy Spirit's whisper that stimulates us to share God's love and wisdom. No doubt the Holy Spirit speaks to us in our waking and our lying down day-by-day, but we are often tuned to a different channel.
I think God has a cosmic sense of humor about us from time to time as in, "What foolishness is John up to this time, doesn't he know that won't work out for him, got to love his curiosity for the ridiculous though."
When we listen to the Holy Spirit's soft suggestions, when we are fired-up for God, he looks at us a different way. God sees us then, I think, as sovereigns of grace traversing through infinite, eternal space.
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