Oh How I love sarcasm...

Oohhh..... this is the most I have posted consecutively in a long time... *applause* ha-ha, kidding.

Honestly, I have gotten into a lot of trouble about my sarcastic writing style. I have been working on disguising it... but I fail. A lot. But every time I make a promise to myself that I shall work on it... I just love it...
Yeah, it's a bad habit, (it's my quirk) and for some reason, I cannot seem to be rid of it in my writing. I will write something and then look at it and realize the whole thing is sarcastic. Oops. What's funny is I have been pulled aside by teachers who have made the dreadful mistake of making me write journals. I am very... verbal... especially on paper. But all of my journal entries are... sarcastic. Utter, dripping, cynical, sarcasm. My science teacher hated it. My English teacher would laugh at me. And this last semester a professor enjoyed my "sarcastic flair" as he put it. My research writing teacher beat it out of my papers though.

So what does sarcasm have to do with today's thoughts?

It's simply a thought about what I read in Devotions today. I was reading Revelation (2) I started going through it section by section (it's WAAAAAAAAYYYYY too intense for chapter by chapter I tried that already.) and ended up reading about the 7 Churches Angels.

This is what jumped out at me:

Rev 2:1- To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: 'The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand,who walks among the seven golden lampstands.

Rev 2:8 "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: 'The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life.

Rev 2:12 To the angel of the church in Pergamum write: 'The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword.

Rev 2:18 To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: 'The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.

Rev 3:1 And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: 'The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars.

Rev 3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: 'The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.

Rev 3:14 And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: 'The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation.

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Maybe you are smarter then me, my dear reader. Because for all of my intelligence, I have read this wrong for quite a long time. You may realize who is being described in each verse.

Ha-ha, not me!!!!

In the past I have always thought that the Churches Angels were being describe in the first verses. Maybe that is silly but I simply couldn't understand who else could do all that.

This morning I was floored with the realization that my sarcasm has hurt me more then I realized. How so? Well, this passage describes the word of God. The One who holds stars in his hands, the true and faithful witness, I could go on for hours. His word is pure and untainted.

Now look at the Definition of sarcasm

Sarcasm-

–noun


1. harsh or bitter derision or irony.
2. a sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark: a review full of sarcasms.
Origin:
1570–80; <>sarcasmus <>sarkasmós, deriv. of sarkázein to rend (flesh), sneer; see sarco-

Synonyms:
1. sardonicism, bitterness, ridicule. See irony 1 . 2. jeer.
Not very nice. And this comes out in most of my personality. I look at this definition and I see something that puts me to shame.

As much as God loves Irony, I highly doubt he loves sarcasm. What do you think?

Katydid out.