“A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.” Proverbs 17:22

You have two choices, to be happy or to be sad. That doesn’t sound hard to choose but you would be surprised how many people enjoy misery and suffering. When they are depressed and upset they want everyone around them to be miserable also. But when you don’t know the Lord, or choose to be your own lord, then you really don’t have control of anything and you feel like life is out of control. When you know the Lord you know who is in control and you know he loves you greatly and wants you to have a good life. Life doesn’t seem hopeless and you can enjoy the little things. From the moment you wake up until you are ready to drift off to sleep at night you see so many good things. I have been studying in Job lately and he definitely had reasons to be depressed. Life really seemed out of control for him. He lost everything in one day and nobody seemed to understand. He had spent his whole life trying to be perfect and serve God. So he didn’t understand because he didn’t know the whole story but of course God doesn’t have to tell us everything. We also have thousands of years history of his faithfulness to learn to trust him, plus his good words to assure us. God is sovereign and he has the best intentions and his purposes are just and loving all the time because he is perfect. But when you don’t know that it does seem hopeless and futile. God says so many times to rejoice because he knows how important it is. When you love God you know how much you have that you don’t deserve and you can be so very grateful. But when you don’t love God it does seem like he doesn’t care but people have to think there is a God if he doesn’t care about them. So why shouldn’t we want them to know the truth if they’re just bringing trouble to themselves. But that means accepting that they are wrong and nobody wants to admit they are wrong. Even if that could make their life better. You really have something very important to share out of great love and compassion because they weren’t raised the way you were. If they just knew all they are missing out on and all the help and love they could have.d. Shouldn’t we try to help them see.