The Benefits of Cheerfulness

The Benefits of Cheerfulness

Our meditation today shall be on the benefits of cheerfulness. And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, that I took the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never been sad in his presence before. Therefore the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing but sorrow of heart.”

The Gestation of Faith (4)

The Gestation of Faith (4)

Faith without patience is like planting a seed and then uprooting the seedling before it has time to produce fruits. If we want to live fruitful lives, we must learn patience (Luke 8:15, James 5:7-8). Even God is patient, and He has made patience one of the built-in features of our universe.