The pathway to personal joy is often blocked by terrible circumstance and detoured by colossal failure, but living life means going after it. Even the founding fathers of our country knew that happiness is something we have to chase after, which is why they wrote about our God-given right; not to happiness -but rather the pursuit of it.
I think God blesses pursuit. God loves it when we go after things. I can’t tell you how many times the money showed up after I started trying to make a trip happen or I connected to the right people after I started working on a project. A lot of the pieces we need to make something work will not fall into place until after we are already committed to the outcome.
God is funny like that and I love it. So when it comes to happiness, we have to be committed to it before we actually get good at it. I think the founding fathers nailed it in penning the pursuit part of that sentence. If you want to be miserable then just sit and hope something good happens. As sure as shooting, you’ll end up bitter that nothing did. But if you really want to live life to the fullest then you have chase after your highest potential.
Proverbs 13:12 says
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.
What if you could be happy? What if you hated your situation but still loved your life?
The Good News is you can! It’s that kind of paradox that successful Christians have been living in for 2000 years. Learning to love your life is one of the greatest benefits of real Kingdom living. The pursuit of happiness is all about learning to love the life God has trusted you with.
The Happy Meal
One of the biggest reasons we fail to really see the tangible promises of God fulfilled in our lives is simply because we won’t get off of our blessed assurance. Were just not motivated enough to really go after things. I also think one of the greatest reasons so many of us are not happy is because we don’t take responsibility for being happy.
The attitude I see so much of today, and its poison to our society, seems to be “If I’m not happy, its your fault.”
According to Sonja Lyubomirsky, a psychologist at the
This point, here, is a lesson that all of us need to be reminded of. The circumstances that are beyond our control have little to do with our being happy. Every day, as we wake up with zoo breath to an irritating buzzer, we need to purpose to be happy this day.
Psalms 118:24, “This is the day which the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
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This reminds me of another one of your posts "A Love For Life" from May of last year. Thanks for the encouragement Brewer. I really enjoy following along.
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