When was the last time you were really happy? When was the last time you expressed your true happiness? I have to admit that I am not the most demonstrative person. I usually try to keep my emotions and reactions in check. Oh, they get away from me from time to time but, I am usually quite stoic and expressionless.
But, there are those times when happiness is building up and I can no longer keep the emotional eruption from happening. I might let out a big whoop, but, most likely, I am going to pump a fist and run, whooping the entire time. There is nothing like seeing someone's true expression of happiness, and, of course, gratitude.
Today's word is Acts 3:8, ESV, which reads, "And leaping up, he stood and began to walk, and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising GOD."
The story in Acts 3 is of a man that had been crippled, unable to walk, his entire life. His existence was for friends to bring him to sit at the door of the temple each morning so that he could beg for support from passersby. In that time, there were no subsidy programs, no other way to make a living for this man, except to beg.
When the Apostles came by and the man asked alms, he was told that they had no money but what they had, they would freely give, which was the power of JESUS CHRIST to Heal! This man, lame from birth, rose up, walked, then he leaped and praised GOD! He was filled with happiness and he outwardly expressed it!
GOD does amazingly wonderful things for each of us every day. I am not saying we should run around and whoop and holler. But, I am saying that if you feel it building within you, it is okay to leap and praise the LORD!
Be Blessed,
Mickey T
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