May 10: Cheerfulness and Contentment.
Good Words Gladden the Heart.
Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, but a good word makes it glad.--Proverbs 12:25, NKJV
LET US NOT GATHER TOGETHER all the unpleasant pictures--the iniquities and corruption and disappointments, the evidence of Satan's power--to hang in the halls of our memory, to talk over and mourn over until our souls are filled with discouragement....
There are, thank God, brighter and more cheering pictures which the Lord has presented to us. Let us group together the blessed assurances of His love as precious treasures, that we may look upon them continually. The Son of God leaving His Father's throne, clothing His divinity with humanity, that He might rescue man from the power of Satan; His triumph in our behalf, opening heaven to man, revealing to human vision the presence chamber where Deity unveils His glory; the fallen race uplifted from the pit of ruin which sin had plunged them, and brought again into connection with the infinite God, and, having endured the divine rest through faith in our Redeemer, clothed in the righteousness of Christ and exalted to His throne--these are the pictures with which God bids us gladden the chambers of the soul.--Testimonies for the Church, vol. 5, 744 745.
"The Lord your God in your midst,
The Mighty One, will save;
He will rejoice over you with gladness,
He will quiet you with His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing."
--Zephaniah 3:17, NKJV
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true,
whatever things are noble, whatever things are just,
whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely,
whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue
and if there is anything praiseworthy--meditate on these things.
--Philippians 4:8, NKJV
Good Words Gladden the Heart.
Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, but a good word makes it glad.--Proverbs 12:25, NKJV
LET US NOT GATHER TOGETHER all the unpleasant pictures--the iniquities and corruption and disappointments, the evidence of Satan's power--to hang in the halls of our memory, to talk over and mourn over until our souls are filled with discouragement....
There are, thank God, brighter and more cheering pictures which the Lord has presented to us. Let us group together the blessed assurances of His love as precious treasures, that we may look upon them continually. The Son of God leaving His Father's throne, clothing His divinity with humanity, that He might rescue man from the power of Satan; His triumph in our behalf, opening heaven to man, revealing to human vision the presence chamber where Deity unveils His glory; the fallen race uplifted from the pit of ruin which sin had plunged them, and brought again into connection with the infinite God, and, having endured the divine rest through faith in our Redeemer, clothed in the righteousness of Christ and exalted to His throne--these are the pictures with which God bids us gladden the chambers of the soul.--Testimonies for the Church, vol. 5, 744 745.
"The Lord your God in your midst,
The Mighty One, will save;
He will rejoice over you with gladness,
He will quiet you with His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing."
--Zephaniah 3:17, NKJV
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true,
whatever things are noble, whatever things are just,
whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely,
whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue
and if there is anything praiseworthy--meditate on these things.
--Philippians 4:8, NKJV
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