Rev. Ray and Pat Amos
Proverbs 17:22
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine…”
“A MERRY HEART”
I was in the surgery waiting area when I heard a woman speak to her husband with a commanding voice. “Come over here and take one of my pills,” she said. “What is it for,” he asked. “It will make you sit down and quit pacing,” was her answer. I don’t think it is a very good idea to dispense medicine like that, but there is one exception:
I went to the Great Physician this morning. I picked up a prescription for us while in the Bible. “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine…” Proverbs 17:22.
It has been said that unpleasantness can be a disease. If that is any of us, then come on and take the Great Physician’s medicine. We need a good dose of a “Merry Heart.” The benefit of laughter has been proven many times.
There are people that we know by the way they laugh. We were in a packed auditorium at Lake Junaluska when we heard a laugh that we immediately recognized. Pat and I looked at each other and said, “Bill is here.” That brought joy to our soul.
Who wants a religion that is too serious to smile when you can have a joyful relationship with Jesus?
There are people whom I believe were sent to us simply for the ministry of laughter. We love to see them coming. They have been given a powerful weapon that the devil must hate. He wants to get us down and crush our soul; make us cry and fuss and quit. We cannot do those things while we are smiling. It is a powerful thing when a person can pick up the fallen chin of a friend.
Several years ago, we had a friend that tended to get down in the dumps. When that happened Pat and I would visit him. Pat would not let him get away with it. She had a way of talking him out of despair and back into the good life that he really had. In a short while the room was an atmosphere of happiness again.
How long has it been since you had your merry heart medicine?
“You’ve got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
Have faith, or pandemonium is
Liable to walk upon the scene.”
Grace and Peace, Rev Ray
“Link to YouTube Video – Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive
