What can give true happiness ?
Everyone ultimately wants to be happy in their life. We always strive to keep ourselves happy through various methods.
For some, it will be by earning money. For some others, it will be the company of loved ones. We think that we can become happy when we achieve specific targets in our life, like getting married, becoming a parent, owning a house, getting a well-paid and satisfactory job etc. But are you delighted with all that? Despite all these, do you still feel a sense of emptiness? In spite of all your efforts, do you always end up without the one thing that you truly need?
Happiness trends worldwide
According to the World Happiness Report of the year 2019, negative feelings are on the rise around the world. The report also analyzes how global happiness has changed over time, based on data stretching back to 2005. There is a worrying trend: Negative feelings—worry, sadness, and anger—have been rising around the world, up by around 27 percent from 2010 to 2018. If we look around the world, we could see that it is true. One would wonder where this world is going. Day by day, we frequently hear news about war, terror attacks, epidemics, natural calamities, and it keeps on increasing as each day passes. How can one be happy in this condition?
The secret to True Happiness
As a human being, we have a life span of 70 or 80 years. We should be spending our life in happiness rather than being sad or worrying about things. How can we find real peace? We hear stories of many people abandoning their riches in search of mental peace and happiness. Definitely, there should be a way. There is a verse in the Bible (Galatians 5:22) which says, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” Hey, if we have all these virtues, we will be the most blessed people on earth. How can we achieve that? This verse says about a Spirit. If we read through the Bible, we could see that the Spirit mentioned is the Holy Spirit, who comes in our lives when we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and saviour.
Worth the experience !
Today, millions of people all around the world experience real joy in their heart because their sins are washed away. They have the knowledge that their life and whatever happens around them or to them is controlled by Lord Jesus and that it will be for their good. They have pure joy in their heart because they know that even after death, they have an eternity filled with happiness.
In Another verse (Psalm 16:11), the psalmist prays to God,
“You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand”. True joy that comes from God is full, eternal and pure. No other experience can fill you up like it. In spite of all the persecutions that he has suffered, Apostle Paul says, “to die is gain”. The ultimate fear of every human being is death. But the joy that Jesus gives can surpass even that.
Do you want to experience this everlasting joy? Accept Jesus as your saviour. Get rid of all your sins, your past will be erased, and you can be born again with a heart full of joy – The joy of salvation. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16.
May Lord God enable you to experience this everlasting joy in your life.