Happiness-one fine gift
Romans 8:31-"If God is for us, who can be against us?"
Well, cancer, poverty,accidents, depression just to name a few things that might be against us. To borrow from a song "He never promised us a rose garden." God`s world is what it is. Why he made things the way they are is His provence. As I said in an earlier BLOG everything is a piece of a very large mosaic whose totality is perfection. We must deal with the pieces that are our lives.
Now, God does not leave us hanging. I am reading a good book "Happiness is" by Shawn Shea. Mr. Shea calls each of us happiness machines. By this he means that we all have the capability for happiness and I agree. I think that God has given us this gift- the gift of happiness. With free will we have the sad ability to spurn this gift. In doing so we fight against God`s basic nature and of course ours-happiness.
By giving us a basic nature of happiness we have the ability to rise above ALL evil or malicious forces. This is exemplified by the Book of Job. God wants us to be happy and thus gives us the ability to do so. I would say that is a FINE gift-yes? This is what God means when He says "what can come against us"? He intends that we trust in God. By trusting in God we accept the basic premise that he gave us the ability to be happy and thus we will tap into that reserve and presto! We find joy!!
God made John Merrick. John Merrick is better known as the "Elephant Man". He was given this nomenclature because he had a disease that terribly misformed him into what most folks would only discribe as grotesque. Almost inhuman looking he actually caused people to scream. Mr. Merrick had a horrible early life as a side show freak. He was eventually rescued by a doctor name Sir Frederick Trevs and lived out a short life as a curiosity of English society. Now, whats the point? Well, this hideous outcast of mankind was a happy man!!!! Yes, he had the ability to tap into God`s gift of a basic nature of happiness and with an attitude of gratitude overcome things we can only imagine.
John Merrick had it, Johnny Plimpton has it ,I have it and so do you-God`s gift of happiness in the face of ALL adversity. "Don`t worry be happy" the calypso song says- and God is singing it too!
Y`all have a great week and go ahead and wrap yourself in God`s cloak of happiness and joy.
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