Are you cheerful today? Joseph Addison said, “Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.” Perhaps Addison was inspired by Proverbs 15:15: “All the days of the oppressed are wretched, but the cheerful heart has a continual feast” (NIV). We should ask the Lord to help us obey the words of Jesus in Matthew 9:2: “Be of good cheer.” A cheerful heart brings a brightness to our faces—and to our finances. When we’re cheerful, our world is happier, and that includes the world of our giving. 

Oh, thank God that He gives to us so that we, in turn, can give to others! What a joy! What a privilege! What an opportunity to lay up treasure in heaven. All we have is from Him, and we give Him simply that which is His own.

The famous Bible commentator John Gill said that a cheerful giver is one who gives freely and with a pleasant countenance. Our gifts to God should all be given with smiles! 

A cheerful heart is an anchor in the storm and a lamp in the night.
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