Title
We Wear Our Hearts
Scripture
A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit if broken.
(Proverbs 15:13)
Devotional
Proverbs likewise says, “A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.” Thus we see that our attitudes have a great deal to do with our health. When we choose to dwell on that which causes sorrow, we are choosing to be broken. Whenever we appropriate the joy of the Lord, we acquire a merry heart. That merriment transfers to our faces and is expressed with a cheerful countenance. The believer can never have a “poker face.” What is in our hearts ought to show on our faces. Anything else is the expression of a lie. A cheerful countenance does not make a merry heart. Try though we may, it will be a face of hypocrisy. I am not justifying a face of gloom and despair. I am calling for us to acquire a merry heart. Nehemiah says it so very well, “The joy of the Lord is your strength.”