Watch Your Countenance

[Neh. 2:2] Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
Nehemiah always pleasant and cheerful, so that the sadness of his countenance was the more taken notice of, though he was a stranger, a captive, he was easy and pleasant.
Good people should do what they can by their cheerfulness to convince the world of the pleasantness of religious ways and to roll away the reproach cast upon them as melancholy; but there is a time for all things (Ecc. 3:4).
It was deemed highly unbecoming to appear in the royal presence with any weeds or signs of sorrow (Ezra 4:2). Hence it was no wonder that the king was struck with the dejected air of his cupbearer, while that attendant, on his part, felt his confrontation increased by his deep anxiety about the issue of the conversation so abruptly begun.
1. We ought, from a principle of Believers sympathy, to concern ourselves in the sorrows and sadness of others, even of our inferiors, and not say, What is it to us? Let not masters despise their servants' grieves, but desire to make them easy. The great G-d is not pleased with the dejections and disquietedness of His people, but would have them both serve Him with gladness and eat their bread with joy.
2. It is not strange if those that are sick have sad countenances, because of what is felt and what is feared; sickness will make those grave that were most airy and gay: yet a good man, even in sickness, may be of good cheer if he knows that his sins are forgiven.
3. Freedom from sickness is so great a mercy that while we have that we ought not to be inordinately dejected under any outward burden; yet sorrow for our own sins, the sins of others, and the calamities of G-d's People, may well sadden the countenance, without sickness.
Many are melancholy and sad but can give no reason for being so, cannot tell why nor wherefore; such should reproach themselves for, and scold themselves out of, their unjust and unreasonable grieves and fears.
Countenance is referred to 53 times in the Scriptures. The word means: your face. One should beware of their facial expressions for it will show what is really going on inside of you.
One can show sadness, happiness, disgust, honor, dislike, afraid, shock, ect.
With the deaf people who read body language find that hearing people say one thing but their face says another.
The Hebrew say if you embarrass a person or anger one or do anything that cause the blood to rush to the face you have sin for mistreating your fellow brethren and contributed to their lost of control of their countenances.
Life is in the blood and it aught to be treated with respect.