Happiness is fleeting, but Joy can last forever.
HAPPINESS IN BASED ON HAPPENINGS: Did you know that HAPPINESS is based on HAPPENINGS? What am I trying to say? Just think for a moment. Is happiness about vacations, birthdays, Christmas presents, a new car, a new video game, graduation, hitting the lottery, shopping? You fill in the blank. Happiness evokes images of what you can get or what you can do. It's based on feelings.
All too often HAPPINESS is fleeting and despair usually follows.
Why So? Because..
I have seen news stories about numerous people who have won large sums of money by hitting the lottery and wishing they never did! Some people shop to find happiness, but what follows are credit card bills they can't pay.
and also from the bible,
1 timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
AND,
instead of looking for HAPPINESS to fulfill that inner desire, something else that is lasting needs to be sought. That something else is JOY! Everlasting JOY!
and, HOW?
Shaking off the things of the world and it's expectations is a good start. Quit feeding the flesh and begin feeding the spirit is another. Material thing don't last and you can't take it with you when you depart from this earth. But the things of God live on.
Romans 8:5-8
5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.
SHAKE YOUR FOCUS OFF YOURSELF: I have found myself to be more joyous when I take the focus off my circumstances of unemployment and heath problems and look outward to help those less off than I am.
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