Why So Serious?

One of the movies I am looking forward to this summer is Batman: The Dark Knight. The first experience I had of this movie was through the marketing tool of billboards. On this one particular billboard, there was a distorted picture of Joker with the words: Why So Serious?

The words were creepy and ominous, yet I was struck by the relevance of the words in my life. In the midst of the busyness of ministry as a missionary in OMF and lay pastor in Faith Church, I've become increasingly more and more serious. Maybe there is a seriousness of people's sin and God's salvation that I've had a growing concern over. Maybe I'm just overwhelmed by the many responsibilities that I've lost a sense of levity.

Proverbs 15:13

A glad heart makes a cheerful face,
but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.

Maybe then it is a glad heart that I should pray for. A cheerful face is telling of the heart. In that way, I will neither be serious, nor trivial (antonym). Would not the light of Christ shine in my life more brightly when it shows that I am fully cheerful in Him? So, when I ask myself, "Why so serious?" maybe I'll give the question more serious thought...