Joy or No Joy?

This commentary I read on Proverbs 17:22 inspired me the other day during my devotions. I hope that it does the same for you.


Proverbs 17:22 "A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones."

Commentary:
If then, Christian, you believe the gospel to be "glad tidings," show that you believe it, by lighting up your face with a smile. Show that you believe its joys, not because you have read and heard of them, but because you have tasted them. It is a sin against God to be without joy. The gloom of the servant reflects unjustly upon the Master, as if thou knewest him, that he was a hard man. Resist then all sorrow that suggests such dishonorable thoughts of him. Gloom is not the portion, and should not stamp the character, of the children of God. If I be a pardoned sinner, an accepted child of God, what earthly trouble can sink me?