Smiling is serious business!

The ability to smile is one of the greatest and most powerful gifts that we have, yet look around, there are so many serious, stiff people out there. We all have a reason to smile every single day! We may have had a childhood that didn't give us much to smile about but, "rejoicing comes in the morning" Psalm 30:5. As a saved Christian you have joy in your heart, God knows it's there and he wants you to express it so that everyone can see it and benefit from it. You don't always feel joy until you purposely activate it by making the decision to smile. The beauty is that when joy is obvious in your life, it rubs off on other people but when it is kept inside of you, you can create a heavy, serious atmosphere around you. Joy and sorrow cannot dwell together so you need to decide whether to have light or dark in your life. Society works so much better when the population is smiling and joyful. Joy is infectious; get out there and spread a smiling infection! At times you reach a certain point in your walk with God in different areas and feel you're stuck there. You know that there is more to be had but you sense that something is blocking it reaching you. One of these blocks is a lack of joy. Joy is part of our receptacle to receive things from God and not outwardly showing joy creates this block. If the joy of the Lord is inside of you but you don't smile and express the brightness within you, life just won't go right. How people see you has a great deal to do with their willingness toward you in many areas. People don't usually want to bless or help someone do something if they appear to have a bad attitude. Every one of us knows how to smile, it's one of God's gifts to us. A new born baby can smile at around 4 weeks of age, long before they can walk and talk so this is an indicator of the importance that God places on joy. Expressing joy through the calm delight of smiling will bring good things into your life alongside you showing the light of Jesus to others. In the Bible, the Lord told his people to rejoice when they faced their enemies. He told them to rejoice when they went into battle or when it looked like death was imminent. In Chronicles 20, he told them to rejoice, sing and praise with a loud voice no matter what happened. "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds," James 1:2. Sadly, most people truly do not understand how expressing joy in the Lord will get rid of circumstances that are not godly because they are full of the devil. The devil hates God's joy, so by being joyful will help keep him out of your life.