Show and Tell

DEVOTION PROVERBS SHOW AND TELL Prov 15:13 13 A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit. NIV “If your happy and you know it then your face should surely show it” are part of the lyrics of a song expressing the truth of this proverb. If a person’s heart is happy then it would only make sense his countenance would reflex it. Yet are there not believers who carry themselves in a fashion that would not depict a happy heart? What else could be the cause of a happy heart other than the assurance of ones salvation in Christ Jesus? If a person knows Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior than a happy heart surely must be the result. And having a happy heart certainly means a certain spring in the step, a smile upon the face and a cheerful disposition. To a certain extent it would imply living above the circumstances of life, when compared to having a crushed spirit. Those who refuse or simply do not know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior have no hope of anything more than what they have now. Within the course of life a variety of events occur, many which without hope could cause heartaches. Worry, anxieties, frustrations and even fear bear heavy upon those who have no hope. Pain and suffering in the body can bring a person down if they have no hope. This is the plan of Satan, to crush the spirit of man. His deceptive practices of trying to convince people the accumulation of material goods will bring happiness only leads to crush their spirits, if not now, in the end. Things cannot bring anyone true happiness, only Christ can do that. That is why the believer should have a happy heart and a happy countenance, and thus living above the fray of ordinary life. If God is for us, what can man do to us? What could cause a believer to get down, become distraught? How can a believer, who has a happy heart, be sad? How can a believer with a happy heart experience worry, anxiety, tension and be despondence? Do any of these expressions upon the countenance of a believer bring glory to God? If your happy and you know it clap your hands, if your happy and you know it then your face should surely show it. And when you show it you can tell it.