A Cheerful Heart is Good Medicine

Did you know that a cheerful heart will be good for you? Yes, it will indeed! Showing love to others instead of indifference or hate, won't be bad for you or the world either.

How is your heart? Is it hard, soft, pliable, down, broken, crushed, or upbeat and grateful?

A group of behavioral scientists once revealed the results of an experiment they conducted after World War II. They said that many orphans where roaming around family-less in Germany at that time and they decided to do a study with two groups of these neglected little children. They found 100 children and put half of them in one group, and the other half in another test group. And then they really got started with it.
One of the groups of kids where given everything that they physically needed. You know, they were given healthy food, clothing, shelter, a warm place to sleep ..as well as giving them lots of warm loving attention and gentle affection.

The other 50 children had their physical needs met except they received no loving attention or affection.

Very sad huh. Don't know how these guys could even do this.

Now after 365 days had passed, both groups of children were then tested a bit. Those children who received the loving affection and tender human care were literally an average of two inches taller and several pounds heavier. They were well-adjusted and merry of heart.

The other group of kids simply experienced more diseases and sickness physically, let alone the emotional challenges.

Need a holy, genuinely caring touch yourself? God can touch you, heal you and meet all your needs! Did you know that joyous laughter is like healing medicine for people? Proverbs 17:22 says, "A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person's strength" (nlt). People are uniquely made by God in such a way that they are the ones who can weep, blush, and chuckle. What animal can do those three things?

We are so blessed to be able to do these three things. God ordained it to be like that, because "A merry heart does good like a medicine…"

This is simple to apply. Chose to reject all negative complaining, cold-heartedness, murmuring and instead decide to love people and have a cheerful heart!