Happiness is the central force, the driving desire behind everything you do. From the time you wake up in the morning, until you go to bed at night, happiness is the motivation. I challenge you to think about this: Ask yourself about today, what have you done, and what was the motivation behind it? Today is Friday, so the first thing I did this morning was take out the trash. Because Friday is trash day here. But more than that, getting rid of trash keeps my home clean and healthy; those are two things I enjoy, a clean and healthy house.
That’s because you weren’t created to be miserable. The biggest misconception is that God doesn’t want you to be happy; that somehow is pleases God to make you miserable. Nothing could be further from the truth. When you are unhappy, it produces stress, which takes a negative toll on your body. Stress has been proven to raise blood pressure, wreak havoc on your immune system, produce depression and many other things.
That is not the way God wants you to live! He wants you to live in peace. He wants you to cast all your cares on him. He would love nothing better than to take care of you. But so often, we work very hard to keep our burdens, our fears and anxiety to ourselves because we have been sold this idea that God doesn’t like it when we’re happy.
There is nothing special about me. I am simply reading the Bible and believing what I read. I am 62 years old, and I’ve never been happier in my life. I’ve been married to the lady of my dreams for 38 years. My bills are paid, I cannot think of anything I want that I don’t already have, and I’m healthy, my wife is healthy and so are our kids. And most of all, I have Jesus in my life. What else would I need?
You can have peace, you can be happy. Because that’s what Jesus brings in your life. He doesn’t want you miserable. A long time ago, I made a decision: “From now on, I’m going to believe the Word of God over and above anything I can see with my eyes, or hear with my ears.” You would be amazed at how the world just fell into place after making that decision. Things I wondered about all my life suddenly made sense. Old doubts I had harbored all my life suddenly just disappeared. And I found happiness. And you can too.
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