To Be Happy


Quite often I hear people say "happiness is dependent on the happening, no happening, no happiness".  There is an aire of truth to that statement, however God desires for us to be happy and that truth is a message worth conveying.

When life doesn't turn out as we had hoped, we often try to dismiss our desires, by saying "it wasn't God's will for me to have it".   Now,  Buddha said that the way to end suffering is to end desire, but our Christian Scriptures reveal that DESIRE is inescapable, for we are made in God's image. And in God is the fullness of desire for God delights in being God.   He is inexhaustible in his perfection, holiness, and love, and he takes delight in all he does.

God's glory  consists  of the fact that he is happy beyond our wildest imagination.  Does this portrait of God strike you as unfamiliar, or even unorthodox? After all, God is, well, God.   What does he care about happiness?  He cares!  In the loving relationship of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is the very fullness of his desire for your happiness.

When we share in the pleasure of God, we share in the very pleasure that the Father has in the Son.  This is the delight of God in His Son, and it is the delight that God wants us to enter into as well.  Ask the Lord to help you channel all of your desires through Him, as you Delight Yourself in the Lord each new Day.