Are you living a cheerful life?

June 03, 2026

Are you living a cheerful life?

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

⏤ John 16:33

There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.

⏤ William Law

Are you living a cheerful life? God put us here to be happy! To stay joyful, to live ,with cheer! One can be happy in life if they stay grateful and count their blessings, pray for others and the world, be positive, loving, and joyful in the Lord! We need to live cheerful lives! Unfortunately, there are some today that are so negative. Just so full of so much hate and living in misery. They do not know how to count their blessings. Some people you can see then and ask them how they are, and they can never say they are well. They are always down, just say fair, and always a real Debby downer. God wants us to rise above all of this! Jesus died for us, then He resurrected from the dead, and offers us life eternal in Heaven. There is cause for joy, to be cheerful always!

The Mornings with God App today said, "May You teach us the lesson of cheerfulness, O God. We are too easily irritated and cast down. We let little troubles and difficulties discourage us. Our joy is too easily overshadowed. Our song of gladness too often turns into a dirge. We fret ourselves needlessly and fail to rejoice always. Sorrows come over us like a flood and bury us beneath their dark waves. Our gladness is too easily turned to sadness as life’s cares and trials come upon us. We hear You bidding us to be of good cheer because You have overcome the world, telling us that though we have tribulations, we may have peace in You. But the lesson is not easy. It’s hard for us to keep the song always in our hearts and the sunshine always on our faces when there are so many cares. We come to You, pleading that You will teach us how to always be cheerful. Help us to have such a strong, quiet, firm faith in Jesus that no matter what comes into our lives, we may always rejoice. Rescue us from discouragement, no matter how great its cause may appear to be. Help us to cast every burden on You, sure that You will sustain us. Help us to learn to rejoice even in disappointments, knowing that if we could see all as You see, we would find beauty and good in everything that seems painful and dark to us. We desire to be ministers of cheer to others. Forbid that we should go out with sadness in our faces, casting a shadow on other lives. May we be sunshine to others. May we show the world what grace can do in making us messengers of gladness. We ask this in the name of Him who overcame the world and can give us peace. Amen." Found at: https://www.youdevotion.com/daily-prayer/miller/59/morning

We all need to be cheer for others and this world. To be a light for the darkness we come across, the haters, the negative, the people living in misery. Let them know that there is more to be joyful about, to stay cheerful, to know that God loves us so much, that He gave us Jesus, when we follow Him, when we reflect, forgive, imitate, and love like Him! When we know with great faith when we follow Jesus, we are promised life eternal in Heaven with Him! Isn't this enough to help us stay cheerful in this Earth School journey?