The definition of the word ‘happy’ according to google means “feeling or showing pleasure or contentment”. When you think about true happiness, what does it mean to you? When do you feel like you are your happiest? This is a question that I am currently asking myself everyday as I am getting older and reflecting more on my life. I went through a period in my life where I wasn’t happy with myself, I tried so hard to distract myself with social media, getting a new hobby, hanging out with family and friends but I just wasn’t happy. I was in a state of feeling discontented with my life and when I started to evaluate what was going wrong in my life it was my relationship with God that I felt was crumbling. I wasn’t fellowshipping with God, and it had an effect on how I felt everything was going on in my life. I realised at that time that it is only God who can make me truly happy. No matter how many people I surround myself with or what I do its only God that can fill that hole. I felt like my life was crumbling because I was not prioritising my relationship with God and everything to me felt like it was falling apart.
The world tells you that you need all of the external things then you can be happy or that we need to achieve a specific goal then we can be content but that is a lie. I’m not saying that we should not have goals and aspirations but it becomes a problem when that is your source of happiness. It will always leave you wanting more every time, it’s a good thing to dream and have goals but the dilemma lies in when you start to believe that only those things can satisfy you. I have seen people who seem to have it all but are still not happy and still not satisfied with life and it leads them to a state of striving – striving for things that will truly make them happy.
That is why in the bible it is always emphasised to delight in the Lord (Psalms 37:4) it tells us that those who are happy are the ones whose God is their Lord (Psalms 144:15). The bible informs us about these things and how to gain true happiness and how to be content in life.
Father Lord, I thank you for the opportunity to receive a revelation from you and I pray that our source of happiness will always be based on you. I pray that we look to you to provide us the happiness that we truly need. Thank you Jesus.
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