“Be of good cheer.” This is the template that Jesus left the earth with before He ascended into heaven. Jesus left us with the instruction to be cheerful and lively and He told us why. As our patriarchal progenitor, Jesus made it clear that He had overcome the world- its systems, concepts, and ideas, depriving it of its ability to harm us.

Cheerfulness is God’s delivery system in redemption. The redemptive story was designed to be responded to with a merry heart. Joy is God’s culture. Sadness and gloom are not impressions that our God-culture deals with and these things are not conduits with which the Father delivers goods to His children. Our Father has designed that we live life being filled with good cheer.