Small or big, young or old, introverted or extroverted, we long for happiness, we seek it, we follow it, we run after it. But where, how can I find true happiness?
Proverbs 16:20
He who heeds the word wisely will find good, and whoever trusts in the Lord, happy is he.
I’m happy? I am not happy?
Maybe that’s my problem, I’m not thinking about the Word of God! If I thought about it, I wouldn’t miss anything. In the Word I find everything I need, to be happy, in any situation in life that comes upon me.
How do I relate to the Word? When I see the Bible: on the bedside table, on my desk, wherever it is in my house, do I feel like stopping for two or three minutes, as long as I have at my disposal, just to think about the word? As I read, do I pray that the Lord will be merciful to me and open my eyes once more so that I may see Him, so that He may fill me with happiness?
It comes to life: a situation that I do not understand, a situation that saddens me, a situation that makes me happy, a bad thought or a good thought. To whom are my thoughts directed? To the first person to tell? Or, I can’t wait to see: what does the Lord have to say about this situation? Do I take the Word to see what the Lord is telling me? Or, perhaps, I remember something I read before that the Lord can reveal to me, in a new way, in the situation I am going through now.
What do you choose?
My Bible is on my nightstand, and right next to it is my phone. When I look at the nightstand do I only see the phone? The notification light is on, I’m thinking of just opening the screen to see briefly who wrote -30 messages, from 10 different people! – after 20 minutes I put the phone back on and go to bed, or leave the room, start the day and I heading for the things I have to do. Everything is very normal, or maybe I’m a little saddened by one discussion or another that I had, maybe happy that I received news as I would have liked.
If I take a second to look at the Lord, I will be ashamed. He stood sorrowful by His Word. How much He would have wanted to give me happiness in my heart, to help me in the problem I have, in the plan I have, but I didn’t pay attention to Him.
Let me never say again that: I love the Lord, that I am happy with Him, that I trust in Him and His Word, because I make myself a liar. It would be more correct to say: I love my phone, I am happy every time I receive a message or someone calls me, I think a lot about my phone, I feel happy with my what`s app. When I have a request, a question, a problem to solve, I write a message or do a Google search and I solve it.
I’m lying to myself! The devil is trying to distract me from true happiness, which is in fellowship with Him, thinking of His Word.
Free of charge
Why do I despise the Word, and give Him unworthy places in my heart? Is it because it’s free? It is for me! If I only knew how many people paid with their lives, for this Word, as I have it today, to be accessible to ordinary people, like me and you. To be translated into our language so that we can understand Him.
”… to do penance for seven years; tied to a beam with their necks, their hands were kept motionless, and then the reddish iron was placed on their cheeks; kept in chains; when he was taken to the stake, the authorities put the whole family before him, to convince him to escape his life at the last minute … he had seven children; his legs were burned to the bone with hot coals; were persecuted; was tied to the fire and burned; he was stripped of all his duties, then paid with his life … hanged and burned at the stake; they cut off his right hand, then he was burned at the stake … ”
When these people have paid with great suffering, that I may be able to have the Word at hand whenever I want, how will I be judged? For I do not desire, I do not love, I do not think of the Word of the Lord?
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With joy,
Oana and the happy dwarfs
