A Word on Happiness
If you are ever going to be truly happy, you have to be happy with yourself first. You can't look to others for your own happiness. Sometimes others are fickle. You can't look to things to make you happy. Things break or become useless. You also can't count on happiness to come from things you hope to attain. Happiness is in the here and now - not out there someday.
Happiness comes from inside you - how you feel about yourself and how you feel about your life and all you do. And it will show in how you walk, how you talk, how you interact with people, and how you do things -- for happiness can't be contained. It just sort of oozes out of happy people. And they are nice to be around.
God wants us to be happy. He made a way for us to be happy. We need to open our eyes and look at all He has done for us, look at all He's given us so that we'd be happy. Happiness comes from being grateful for who God made each one of us to be and where He placed us. When it comes right down to it, who are we to not be happy with ourselves - that's sort of like telling God he blew it. News Flash!!!! God doesn't blow it. He doesn't make mistakes. He's perfect, remember. You are exactly who God wanted you to be; exactly as God wanted you to be; exactly where God wanted you to be. So be happy with yourself. "For you are God's workmanship created in Christ Jesus to do the good works God planned for us." Ephesians 2:10
You can't change who you are, but you can work on changing how you are, because change - well, that's part of life!!
"But may the righteous be glad and rejoice before God; may they be happy and joyful." Psalm 68:3
"The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy." Psalm 126:3
"A happy heart makes the face cheerful." Proverbs 15: 13a
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