Laughing Jesus?

I am sick of the 'laughing Jesus' pictures I am seeing everywhere. It seems this is an attempt to make Him more like us. So, we resort to featuring him as 'fun dude'. Could this be an attempt to rationalize the entertainment culture in our churches? How else could He be marketed in these days of Cheap Grace.

Jesus Christ was God. In the flesh. He was perfect and I know He felt joy but to turn Him into a belly laughing jokester is more than I can take. Simply put: He did not come to earth for fun.

How does scripture describe Him BEFORE He came to earth?

"For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground;he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. " Isaiah 53:2-4
Think about the last part of that verse, "...we esteemed him not."

We still don't.

Let's All Repent of Idolatry

"My dearest family in Jesus, why are we so star struck? Why do we idolize Christian singers and speakers? We go from glorifying musicians in the world, to glorifying Christian musicians. It's all idolatry! Can't you see that?... Satan is getting a great victory as we seem to worship these ministers on tapes and records, and clamor to get their autographs in churches and concert halls from coast to coast. Can't you see that you are hurting these ministers? They try desperately to tell you that they don't deserve to be praised, and because of this you squeal with delight and praise them all the more. You're smothering them, making it almost impossible for them to see that it's really Jesus. They keep telling themselves that, but you keep telling them that it's really them, crushing their humility and grieving the Spirit that is trying to keep their eyes on Jesus... Let's all repent of idolatry..."

Keith Green