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A SMILING HUSBAND, Part 2
Are you smiling at your wife?
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
“Smiles are the language of love.”
“They gave each other a smile with a future.”
It is true that it doesn’t cost much to smile. However, the cost of negative feelings, as well as the price, is evidently too much to pay. I could not help notice while watching the Olympics the vast difference between the cultures when it comes to smiling. Some athletes looked sad even before they participated in their event. It almost made me want to cry for them.
True Christianity, irrespective of the circumstances, is and should always be “joy unspeakable and full of glory” (1 Peter 1:8).
True holiness has absolutely nothing to do with keeping a straight face. Of course, I am not suggesting that smiling is appropriate during discipline and repentance. It would convey a false message for a wife or husband to smile at their spouse while the spouse is committing adultery or porn.
Who wants a Christianity that has no power to even put a smile on one’s face—not the world, and certainly, not God.
Be encouraged to smile more. Colin
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
“Smiles are the language of love.”
“They gave each other a smile with a future.”
It is true that it doesn’t cost much to smile. However, the cost of negative feelings, as well as the price, is evidently too much to pay. I could not help notice while watching the Olympics the vast difference between the cultures when it comes to smiling. Some athletes looked sad even before they participated in their event. It almost made me want to cry for them.
True Christianity, irrespective of the circumstances, is and should always be “joy unspeakable and full of glory” (1 Peter 1:8).
True holiness has absolutely nothing to do with keeping a straight face. Of course, I am not suggesting that smiling is appropriate during discipline and repentance. It would convey a false message for a wife or husband to smile at their spouse while the spouse is committing adultery or porn.
Who wants a Christianity that has no power to even put a smile on one’s face—not the world, and certainly, not God.
Be encouraged to smile more. Colin
