I recently went to celebrate a friends birthday and I gave her a card that said, "God wants you to be Happy." I was not trying to make a theological statement. It was just a cute card I found at the dollar store. Another friend who knows the word of God very well made a comment after the card was read. She said, "I do not agree that God wants us to be happy."
IF God is our loving father, why wouldn't he want us to be happy? It does not make sense. I have kids and my desire is for them to be happy. Yet as a parent, I know there will be times when my kids will be far from happy, due to the hardships in life.
During hard times we have to make the right choices. The word of God helps steer us away from what might "feel good", in the moment, i.e. make us "happy" to doing the right thing even though it is hard and will be a sacrifice to our self.
There have been many times in my marriage I was very unhappy. I wanted to quit so I could stop suffering and have "happiness." God's word seered me to continue doing the hard thing. I chose to stay in the marriage and sacrifice my "happiness". Yet when we heed to God's word and trust him we will be happy.
God's desire is for us to have the best. He does not want us to use the excuse of being happy to give up our marriage.
If we endure we will find the true riches of life that not only bring happiness but pure joy unspeakable. I am so glad I followed God. I made the hard decison to stay in my marriage. I got more that I could have dreamed.
I am blessed. I chose to be happy. I know this is God's will for me.
Mimwrite
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