So the striving for real happiness is close at hand, The Lord is anxious to pour out his lavish love upon us. “Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in His ways.” (Psalm 128:1) Happiness in Scripture is always equated with blessings and in modern translations the word “happy” is translated as “ blessed”. The only perfect love we will ever find comes from our Heavenly Father. I agreed in part with those being interviewed, but all of us know that human love is frail and often conditional and can change abruptly when circumstances change. Some folk believed that if you had someone to love and somebody loved you that meant real happiness. The other theme of the article I was reading was Love. “ Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God” ( Psalm 146:5) ( KJV) That relationship inspires us to live meaningful lives and in so doing, blessings flow our way. True happiness emerges through our relationship with the Lord. I decided to explore what Scripture has to say about achieving happiness and discovered that happiness is never associated with the pleasing of oneself.
“Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind nothing was gained under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 2:11) When this same writer surveyed how he had lived his life, this is how he viewed what now looked like a meaningless life. “I denied myself nothing my eyes desired I refused my heart no pleasure…” (Ecclesiastes 2:10) The book of Ecclesiastes has a very telling description of what is often the result of a life pursuing selfish gain, pleasure and one’s own happiness These stories are usually found in Christian magazines, I was pleased to read it in the daily newspaper. The surprising end to the story is that this woman gave up her business life, worked with the church to set up a kitchen, joined the church and was able to tell the reporter for the first time in her life she was truly happy providing good food for the poor. She was surprised when he agreed the local poor needed help and they had the room in the church basement, but no resources or man power to help. She boldly went into the church to find somebody and found the pastor. Proper food is what this man needs, she thought. She reached into her pocket to give him some change when a thought suddenly struck her that this was not the answer. One day she had been walking past a church and saw a man begging outside. The person being interviewed had been a very successful and wealthy business woman, but had grown tired of the cut throat business world. One story caught my eye that seemed a genuine reason for happiness. For example, achieving your goals in life dreaming that big dream believing you can do it finding that perfect job/ partner believing in yourself etc. Some of the other reasons seemed to me to be trite sayings that we have all heard repeated many times. I was not surprised to read that many of those being interviewed agreed that having lots of money was not the answer. The stories varied widely as to what individuals considered happiness to be.
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I was interested to see in one of our local papers, a series of articles on “ What Does Happiness Mean Today?” The reporter had interviewed different people from all walks of life and had asked them to describe what it meant for them to be happy.
Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).“To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness…” (Ecclesiastes 2:26)
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