Thought for Saturday, February 25th

February 25, 2012

Cheerfulness and Joyfulness

Need to be A Shared Experience

But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.

Psalms  5:11

And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

Psalms 35:9

O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods..

Psalms 95:1-3

Quote of the Day

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” – Mark Twain

Today’s Thoughts and Insights

 Joy, real joy can’t help but make you cheerful and if you are feeling cheerful and joyous then those feelings can’t help but affect the people around you.

As Christians: when we realize and recognize who we are in Christ and how blessed we are to be living as children of the most High God; how can we be anything less than joyously excited and exuberantly cheerful.

But this joy and cheer is not meant just for our own indulgence and pleasure.  We are to be a light in the darkness and we need to let the joy of the Lord radiate and illuminate so that others can see why we are so joyful and cheerful.

If you’ve got the joy of the Lord and it is truly your strength and if your delight is in the Lord – you won’t be able to contain it anyway.

It will spread and you will find that as you share your joy and pass around your good cheer others will be affected: and as they are affected that affect will come back full circle and you will be even more blessed than you started out.

So like the old camp song says, ‘Pass it On.’

Today’s Prayer

Father, how wonderful, marvelous, great and glorious you are and you are the delight and joy of my life.  You bring hope and cheer to every day and I am so blessed.  Thank you!  Help me to be free and liberal in my sharing of all the blessings, the joy, the hope and the excitement you bring to my life.

“In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.”

-          Karl Reiland

“Word of God speak, pour down like rain…”

- from ‘Word of God Speak’ by Mercy Me