It seems some people can see nothing but life’s dark side; they look at life through mud covered glasses.
One pessimist whined, “I feel good today, but I always feel my worst when I feel my best, for I get to thinking how bad I’m going to feel, when I really get to feeling bad again.” Does this sound like someone you know?
The Bible is a heaven-sent book of optimism! Though God’s book honestly reveals to us our problem, the problem of sin, it also provides us with help and hope to overcome sin through Jesus Christ. While the faithless pessimist mopes over what the world is coming to, the Christian optimist rejoices over what has come into the world! The Bible describes “Christ in you” as “the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27.)
Though “persecuted” and “cast down” by cruel men (2 Corinthians 5:9), the apostle Paul was nonetheless a perennial optimist. While suffering as a prisoner, in “bonds,” Paul encouraged his fellow brethren by writing, “Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, rejoice.” (Philippians 1:13; 4:4.)
Observe that Paul did not suggest his readers merely rejoice; neither did he stop at encouraging them to rejoice always. He rather exhorted them to “Rejoice IN THE LORD always.” True happiness and genuine optimism are found only “in the Lord.”
Are you “in the Lord”? Read Galatians 3:26,17.