Holy Laughter

Several years ago, Pastor Bob asked me to be an elder at New Jerusalem Christian Fellowship. I had not thought about being an elder at all when to my surprise one day I began to think about being an elder. The next day when he asked me I responded that God had spoken to me the day before. I accepted the position as an assignment from God.

Sometime after that we had a men’s mentoring group of about ten men in which we read and discussed Christian books and also were assigned a prayer partner. The final group meeting concluded with a foot washing service. We were in the finished basement of the home of one of the men. It was a rather quiet informal service as we went around washing one another’s feet and praying for one another. Then I came to Pastor Bob. All of a sudden, as out of nowhere for no apparent reason, I started laughing, laughing hard, and then Bob started laughing. It was some time before we could stop. The other men had the look of “what is going on?” But it was good and right. There was some kind of a release. I believe it was a sign from God of his blessing to come upon us and the church in the days ahead, a taste of the joy of the Lord.