OPTIMISM!!

""The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want". Psalms 23:1. OPTIMISM in the Lord! When I was growing up we had a dog that was the most optimistic creature I ever saw. He never had a discouraging bark even after he chased scores of squirrels and rabbits and never caught one in his life. Was he ever discouraged, no, nada, never. He was always ready to try again in the hope that he would win one of these days. But there is a strange contradiction going on in this world today. Unbelievers who have the most horrible future in store are filled with a vain optimism, but Christians who have every reason to be most optimistic people on the earth are often depressed and pessimistic. Humm, what's up with that? Proverbs 10:28 says, "The prospect of righteous is joy, but the hopes of the wicked come to nothing" (NIV). Is that true you may ask? In Isaiah 3:10-11 " Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their doing. Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given to him". Bro: we have to have Biblical optimism. I have Biblical optimism, because: 1) I remember God's faithfulness in the past. 2) I expect God's help in the present. 3) I have faith to see the unseen. 4) I will not be troubled by external circumstances because I have internal peace and hope in the Lord. When I see the kettle in my house keep on singing even it's up to the neck with hot water, I will sing also "What a friend we have in JESUS....". Now you sing my friend.. sing..He is with you wherever you are!