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Cheerfulness, July 10
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He sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
Romans 12:8
You have a duty to perform, which is to make yourself cheerful and
to cultivate unselfishness in your feelings until it will be your greatest
pleasure to make all around you happy....
Cheerfulness without levity is one of the Christian graces.
Do not allow the perplexities and worries of everyday life to fret your
mind and cloud your brow. If you do, you will always have something
to vex and annoy. Life is what we make it, and we shall find what we
look for. If we look for sadness and trouble, if we are in a frame of
mind to magnify little difficulties, we shall find plenty of them to engross
our thoughts and our conversation. But if we look on the bright side of
things, we shall find enough to make us cheerful and happy. If we give
smiles, they will be returned to us; if we speak pleasant, cheerful words,
they will be spoken to us again.
It is Satan’s studied plan to push persons from one extreme to the
other. As children of the light, God would have us cultivate a cheerful,
happy spirit, that we may show forth the praises of Him who hath called
us out of darkness into His marvellous light.
Go into a cellar, and you may well talk of darkness, and say, “I cannot
see; I cannot see.” But come up into the upper chamber, where the light
shines, and you need not be in darkness. Come up where Christ is, and
you will have light.
Earnest Christians seek to imitate Jesus, for to be Christians is to
be Christlike.... A hearty, willing service to Jesus produces a sunny
religion.... In Christ is light and peace and joy forevermore.
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