Irony

One definition of the word irony is, “a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.”

• It is ironic, for example, that the most shop-lifted book is the Bible.

• Every year ABC cuts down A Charlie Brown Christmas—a movie about the over-commercialization of the holidays—to make room for more commercials.

• Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone but refused to keep one in his study. He feared it would distract him from his work.

• The first man to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel died after slipping on an orange peel.

• Duct tape is never supposed to be used to seal ducts. It melts and puts out dangerous fumes. [source:rd.com, altered]

It is ironic when someone like the church’s leading persecutor, Saul of Tarsus, becomes its most influential leader and defender. It is ironic that Jephthah, who was cast out of his family and town, would later listen to the same people who rejected him pleading, asking him to return and be their leader.