In Our Own Element!
"Happy are the people who know the
joyful shout; Lord, they walk in the
light from your face."
Psalm 89: 15
A. W.
Tozer said, “The people of God ought
to be the happiest people in all the wide world!
People should be coming to us constantly and
asking the source of
our joy and delight.”
Charles Spurgeon felt the same way, writing,
“God made human beings as He made His
other creatures, to be happy…. They are in
their right element when they are happy.”
One day the world will be filled with joy when
Christ returns. Isaac Watts wrote, “Joy to the
World.” We don’t have to wait for the
return
of Christ to be happy. He lives in, among, and
through us right now by His
Spirit. Choose
happiness today!
Francis of Assisi said, “Let us leave
sadness to the devil and his angels.
As for us, what can we be but
rejoicing and glad!”
Jonathan Edwards added, “He has created
man for this very end, to make him happy in
the enjoyment of himself, the Almighty, who
was happy from the days of eternity in
himself.”
"Man is more himself…when joy
is the fundamental thing in him."
G. K.
Chesterton
