HOW TO BE CHEERFUL

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 14, 1880

HOW TO BE CHEERFUL.

There is no better receipt for cheerfulness, in such a world as this, than the habit of taking everything to God in prayer. This is the plain advice that the Bible gives both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. This was the practice of all the saints whose history we have recorded in the Scriptures. This is what Jacob did when he feared his brother Esau. This is what Joshua did when Israel was defeated before Ai. This is what the church did when Peter was in prison. This is what Paul did when he was cast into the dungeon at Phillippi. It is trying to carry their own burdens which so often makes believers sad. If they will only tell their troubles to God, he will enable them to bear them as easily as Samson did the gates of Gaza.—Sel.