"I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't." - C.S. Lewis
"God threatens terrible things if we will not be happy." - Jeremy Taylor
Lewis and Taylor are not saying that Christians should always be smiling and wearing permanent foyer face. They are not asking Christians to pretend like heartache is fun or suffering is piece of cake.
What they are saying is people who take themselves incredibly seriously wouldn't enjoy Heaven even if they were allowed to go there because someone would invariably ask them to dance or sing or run or some other undignified behavior which the person finds beneath them.
When you take yourself seriously, you never get the joke. And heaven will be full of people who have embraced the punchline and found freedom in laughing at themselves and rejoicing in their God.
All that to say, "Get over yourself. You're a joke and everyone knows it. But they feel uncomfortable laughing around you until you're ready to join them."
Isaiah 66:10-11
“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her,
all you who love her;
rejoice with her in joy,
all you who mourn over her;
that you may nurse and be satisfied
from her consoling breast;
that you may drink deeply with delight
from her glorious abundance.”
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