You look around and all you see is bad news. Every TV news channel reports the murders, the wars, the stealing, and all the other constant crimes of man’s inhumanity to his fellow man. In the middle of all this…not to mention your own personal crises…is it possible to be of good cheer?

Well, what if I told you the Creator of the universe actually says to “be of good cheer“? Would that help?

I know this world is mean and most times unforgiving. But you don’t need to throw your hands up in frustrated despair. You can connect with the one true, living, loving God who knows, first-hand, what you’re going through. And He says He has “overcome the world”.

But what exactly does “overcome the world” mean? Does that mean God has secretly conquered the world when others like Caesar, Napoleon, and Hitler failed? No. The world system based on the selfish, arbitrary, and capricious whims of flawed and failing human beings doesn’t hold up under pressure. God doesn’t have that problem. He’s God. More powerful and more able than all the world. And yet He took on human flesh, suffered ridicule and a horrible death, and overcame the sin in our world, and as Jesus, the man, said…

…be of good cheer.

Can you imagine the agony of having the very ones you love yell out “crucify Him”? Can you even begin to imagine the love it must have taken to suffer the most horrible death in all of history for crimes you didn’t commit? I can’t.

So, if someone who knows that sort of rejection, humiliation, and tribulation tells me to be happy in spite of my circumstances, I think it behooves me to give it a shot. What do you say? Will you join me today in an effort to be of good cheer and to help others do the same?

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