Our True Happiness!
"Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that
is within me, bless His holy name!"
Psalm 103: 1
Everyone has a different idea of happiness. Inspirational
speaker and writer Dale Carnegie once wrote: “Success is
getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
But the Bible teaches that happiness comes from being
happy with who God is.
Deuteronomy 33:29 says, “Happy are you, O Israel! Who is
like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help.”
Psalm 144:15 says, “Happy are the people whose God is the
Lord!”
Psalm 146:5 says, “Happy is he who has the God of
Jacob for his help.” Proverbs 16:20 says, “Whoever
trusts in the Lord, happy is he.”
Whose definition of happiness are you going to follow—Dale’s
or God’s? God has made us with great gifts, He has cleansed
us with the blood of Christ, and He wants to use us. He doesn’t
want us being unhappy with ourselves, but all true happiness
comes—not from ourselves—but from Him.
Those who look to Him are radiant.
"We are called to a settled happiness
in the Lord whose joy is our strength."
Amy Carmichael
