Learning, Guidance and Humour

Years ago, when I was living in Johannesburg, I was driving along one of the highways with a friend, when he started to laugh at something on the back seat of the car.  ‘Just look what you've got lying there,’ he said.  And lying on the seat was a commentary on ‘The Letter to the Romans’, a South African Road book, and a couple of my daughter's comics.  The combination of a Bible commentary, a South African road book, and some comics amused my friend.

But there's not much wrong with that combination, because it seems to me to represent three needs of life.

Paul's letter to the Romans is important to us today, not only because it brings us a message from God, as it did to the Christians in Rome, but because many people have had their lives changed as a result of reading it.  There is a certain limitless quality about Scripture.

There was the South African Roadbook which enabled me to find the way around Johannesburg and other places in that country.  So roadbooks are useful things to guide us.

And then there was something to provide me with laughter.  There were my. daughters' comics.  The person who can do without relaxation has, I'm afraid, still to be born.

Learning, guidance and laughter are necessary things in life.