Cultivate a cheerful disposition

[stephen]

Cultivate a cheerful disposition; endeavor, as much as lieth in you, always to bear a smile about with you; recollect that this is as much a command of God as that one which says, "Thou shalt love the Lord with all thy heart." Let us take the pure gold of thankfulness and the jewels of praise and make them into another crown for the head of Jesus. When it is the Lord's work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad. Cheerfulness is most becoming in Christian men. Contentment is the crown jewel of a happy life.



--C.H. Spurgeon

 

[Coconut]

In times like these, this is a much needed word!

Cheerfulness ...like faith...does not deny the present, or all the evidence staring us in the face that would give us ever reason to be downcast...but cheerfulness looks to hope, and there finds its strength.

Solomon tells us to weep with those who weep, and rejoice with those who rejoice, and certainly the frailty our human condition gives us much cause for tears and again times of rejoicing...

Yet, during a time of weeping, David said, "Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God." (Psalm 42)

Hallelujah!