Inside Smiling

Sometimes our smiles never surface!  When we aren't smiling on the inside, it’s tough to smile on the outside.  H. Randolph Holder, long-time and former of a local radio station, used to say early in each day's broadcast, "keep smiling until ten o'clock and the rest of the day will take care of itself."  I heard it every morning on my way to work and remember thinking he really should get a new slogan!  Now, of course, I recall it fondly as ever-wise words, and better understand often it’s the first smile that sets the day’s pace!

 

The Bible tells us the unseen produces the seen: "Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and even though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy ... " (1 Peter 1:8-9)  How exciting to simply believe in the matchless wonder of Jesus Christ then know His inexpressible and glorious joy.  The simplicity of that recipe for smiling on the inside is incredible.  Inside-smiling starts with simple belief in the One and True God of joy and happiness.  Waking up with God on the mind, God in the heart, and God on the lips will always produce that inside smile.  Before you know it -- it's slipping outside!