Avoiding Joking & Teasing (TMF:2063)

Wednesday, April 05, 2023
Peace to Live By: Avoiding Joking & Teasing (TMF:2063) - Daniel Litton
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       One more thing before I wrap this section up, and I think this needs to be said, that it is important to watch our joking and teasing of others, even when we think it is all in fun, because it may not be so fun for the person being teased. Perhaps someone committed a social faux pas, and everyone knows about it. Perhaps they gave a speech during church service and said a couple of things we think they shouldn’t have said. You might kid the person the first day for it, but it should not be something that is now eternally reoccurring every time we have an interaction with the person. For the jokers and teasers, that’s a negative characteristic. Remember, you also could do something wrong in the future, and you most certainly will, because everyone does wrong, it’s just that most of the time people aren’t publicly aware of the wrong. So, we should not go all high-horse, self-righteous, toward others, even in the form of joking. That’s what joking and teasing really is, isn’t it. It’s a display of our own self-righteousness.