Solomon wrote, "a merry heart has a continual feast."
But why does it seem like so many of us are not feasting? How do we maintain a merry heart?
Too often, we brood and complain over all the things we lack. Somehow we've come to believe that if good things would only come our way, we'd be truly happy.
But it's not good things that bring a merry heart---it's living a life of wholehearted faith!
Paul said that he was content both in want and in plenty!
Mathew Henry said, "Discontent is a sin that is its own punishment and makes men torment themselves; it makes the spirit sad, the body sick, and all the enjoyments sour; it is the heaviness of the heart and the rottenness of the bones...