Happiness

What gives us Happiness?

 There are perhaps many
different thoughts as to
what can give us happiness.

Is it always getting exactly
what we want in life?
Is happiness seeing others
prosper in many different ways?

Is happiness getting that
promotion which you may have
been seeking for a while?
Is happiness living in good health?

Possibly there are too many
different things that can
bring us happiness to fully
be able to mention.

Can wrong things make
us happy as well though?
The answer to this is
of course yes they can.

Sin can also give
us at least fleeting happiness,
although generally it is a happiness
that will not last.

Living for God though
always should give us
true happiness, a happiness
that endures.

This is not to say that
when we live for God we will
never be unhappy.

But he is always there
to pick us up and help
us along ,until we
can and are able
to know happiness in life again.

I do not believe that Jesus was
always happy himself.
He had things that made him
otherwise, such as in the
garden of Gethsemane.

Yet he did know true happiness
within his earthly life.
So also can we.

We can and will know more happiness
in life as we submit more
of ourselves to him.
Letting go of things that
in the end will bring us
and possibly others
unhappiness.

Let us then
live our lives
for him in
Happiness.

Comments

  1. Unknown10 May 2017 at 01:25

    Let go and be happy and live for God that is a good way to live!

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