Christmas Season - Don't Be Afraid to Be Happy

 There is a risk in telling a joke. You could look like a fool and no one gets it or they get it but don't see the humor. Based on their life situations past and present, some can't see much joy, happiness, or humor in much of anything.

It's easy to fall into that trap.  I've been there before. It is easier and less risky personally, to be negative, and pessimistic about everything. Bah- Humbug is a piece of cake which is why most of us fall into that hole from time to time.  It takes guts, it takes God to find joy in this fallen world.

 We may have been beaten up so much in the past, and the future doesn't look that great either.  So consequently, people are afraid to trust happiness, to take the risk to laugh, to smile, to say something is good, and to have the courage not to be turned aside because of the probability that there will be some who will think they are crazy.    Live long enough and we'll find that happiness and joy leave us vulnerable. Do we risk happiness again?  Perhaps, the last time you trusted happiness it turned out to be a train wreck? 

But God in His word says hundreds of times, "Do Not Fear."  "Do not fear, only believe."  This is a fallen world and the devil came to kill and destroy.  This Christmas season, don't let him destroy your joy.  Don't let him have you.  Go with God.  "God is with us" and as Christians, we are not to live as a people of no hope regardless of circumstances.  Our circumstances don't end here on earth for us.  God has made a way.  

Christmas marks God's intervening in this fallen world.  "For God so loved" We have every reason to hope in light of our presence with the Lord, now and evermore.  

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