Topic: NOEL—Ways to Celebrate the Season: Love and Laughter [David Jeremiah Ministry 21 December 2024 | Turning Point Ministries]

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NOEL—Ways to Celebrate the Season: Love and Laughter

December 21, 2024

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”
Psalm 126:2

 Recommended Reading: Psalm 126

Comedian Milton Berle said, “Laughter is an instant vacation.” As we come to the last letter of our NOEL acronym, let’s use love and laughter for L. In his first letter to the Thessalonians, Paul bragged on the people for their “labor of love” (1:3). He said their love was good news to him (3:6). Then he prayed for their love to “increase and abound” (3:12). He said God had taught them to love one another (4:9) and that they should do so more and more (4:10).

We love our friends and families, despite all the ups and downs that come with close and sometimes complicated relationships. The Lord teaches us how to love one another. Let’s do so more and more. Let’s display our love with laughter. Not hurtful, sarcastic laughter, but the laughter of fun and fellowship. Especially at Christmas. The people in Psalm 126:2 said, “We were filled with laughter, and we sang for joy. And the other nations said, ‘What amazing things the Lord has done for them’” (NLT).

Let your love and laughter be contagious this season.

If God is God…then laughter fits life.
Charles Swindoll

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