How Can I Truly Be Happy

HOW CAN I BE TRULY HAPPY?

Do you want to be really happy? Content? Glad? Cheerful? Or would you rather be depressing, gloomy, miserable, sad and unhappy.

1 John 2:12-14 I write to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name. I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, dear children, because you have known the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

The World of God tells use that if you know Jesus:
Your sins are forgiven
You are no longer guilty
You will not be condemned or judged
You know the true and living God.

So happy are those who realize what Jesus has done for them. A question we might ask ourselves is, “How should I respond to such a great love as God has shown me?” Well, the Apostle John goes on to tell us.

1 John 2:15-17 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world-the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does-comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.

Why should I not love the World? Because God said: do not love this world. Then John said beside God commanding us not to love the world here are two more reasons: First, that hungering after the things of this life shows that the love of the Father is not in us; and secondly, it is foolish because the things in this world are going to pass away. Why invest your life chasing after things that rust and break?

Be devoted to and love the one who gives eternal life. -- Pastor Tony Taylor is the Senior Pastor of Faith Church, Worcester, PA

God's WORD for YOU: Proverbs 26; 1 Chronicles 28-29; John 9:24-41

Great Quote: We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them. Blaise Pascal