“All the days of the afflicted [are] evil: but he that is of a
merry heart [hath] a continual feast.”
(Pr 15:15 AV)
We
all go through hard times. There are two
types of people mentioned above. There are the afflicted. Then there are the merry. It is not that one has an easier life than
the other. Both have hardships or
challenges they face. Illness strikes
all. Death strikes all. Even the well-off have problems which must be
overcome. The poor may look at the rich
and think their problems worse than they, but the fact of the matter is, even
the rich stress over staying rich.
What
is specially of note is the first word, ‘…all…’. Not just the days in which the afflicted are
afflicted. All his days are evil. All his days are no good. All his days are full of tragedy whether they
are truly full of tragedy or no. The
merry, I am sure have times of destitution or hardship. The merry still suffer. Yet, they can make a feast out of the direst
of situations.
Here
is the point. We can have one of two
dispositions. We can either look at life
as one continual hardship and look at life through dark colored glasses, or we
can make the best of any situation no matter how hard it is. The attitude of the heart and not the
circumstances is what makes a situation an affliction or a feat.
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