A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones
(Proverbs 17:22, NIV). For those who have eyes to see it the heavens are aglow with God's shining face.
Praising God anyhow, anytime or anywhere. Dr Praise would like to recommend to you the medicine of a merry heart.
A distinguished looking man was walking by a park bench when he overheard a boy praising God with enthusiasm. He stopped and asked, “What are you so excited about young man?” The boy replied: “O mister our God is so great, it says here in my Bible that God delivered his people from bondage and opened up a way through the Red Sea so they could cross over on dry ground!” Having a background in Bible knowledge, he sat down by the boy in order to enlighten him. “Scholars tell us that the Hebrew word translated ‘Red’ should be translated ‘Reed’ Sea. It was a marshy area of reeds adjacent to the Red Sea that often had only 6 inches of water in it. The people could have easily waded through it. It may not have been a miracle but a natural event.” The boy looked down at his open Bible with confusion on his face as the man stood up and started to walk away. He had only taken a few steps when the boy began to praise God even with more gusto. The man stopped and asked: “What are you so enthused about now?” The boy replied: “O mister, our God is even greater than I thought. He not only delivered his people but he drowned the army of Pharaoh in only six inches of water!”
Life is often not fair. Bad things can and do happen to good people. A sanctified sense of humor can help us transform tragedy into triumph, pain into praise. The greatest disappointments can become divine appointments and the most difficult circumstances can be a call to praise. Even if one could explain away every miracle and attribute them all to natural causes and coincidence, it would not quench my spirit of rejoicing.
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