Around the Year With Emmet Fox - 25 February 2011
REGISTER JOY
The principal revelation of the Justus Christ teaching is the omnipresence and availability of God, and the bleief that God not only transcends His universe but is everywhere immanent in it - that He indwells in it.
If you really believe in the existence of God you should be happy and cheerful. God has all power, and God is good; so life must be good too.
Meet the world with a smile. You owe this to God, to your fellows, and above all, to yourself. If you go about with a face like an east wind, what can you possibly expect to attract from the world? We all know people who carry a fixed, frozen, mirthless, almost professional, smile. Such a smile is just a permanent wave in the face.
Smile, even if it takes a little effort, and keep it up until it becomes spontaneous, as it will. In the graphic language of Hollywood, register joy, and hold it!
For ye shall go out with joy... (Isiah 55:12).