I’m guilty. I look to others and to other things for happiness. I look for possessions to satisfy me. Furniture. Clothes. Shoes. Travel. Seeking, seeking, seeking. We all seek the things we think are important.
Yet truly all I need is right in front of me. God knows my earthly focus. He is waiting for me to reach out. We can’t buy happiness, but we can find contentment and hope and a peace beyond our imagination. I personally know this to be true.
Sooner or later, we learn that our earthly idols won’t satisfy us. And sooner or later our earthly idols will disappoint us. Think of all the famous people who we perceive to have everything, but yet eventually they fall from grace and disappoint us. Politicians, sports figures, movie stars, rock stars. Sports people are often the most notable thanks to the media. It’s as if they are waiting for there to be a problem to report. We are disappointed in them.
But hear this, there in ONE figure who will never disappoint us. God. God will never disappoint us, and He will never leave us. He will never change.
Hebrews 13:8 says Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
He will teach you that the things you have here on earth are not what happiness is about. They are temporary. They take but do not give.
If you turn to God, He will give you perspective. He will give you peace. There’s a beautiful scene in the CS Lewis Narnia story The Silver Chair. Young Lucy is on the run and is very thirsty. She encounters Aslan at a stream. She’s uncertain. She is very thirsty but she has to step out of her comfort zone to take a drink and quince her symbolic thirst. After all the King stands before her. Do you recall what she is told? When she states she is scared and uncertain and thus prefers to choose to just remain on the path she knows hoping to find what she needs. Aslan states gently yet authoritatively and firmly that “there is no other stream”. No one else can quince our thirst. The woman at the well hears this in John 4:14.
Be still and don’t chase earthly things. Sure God created the world for our enjoyment but only when we see Him in its beauty and acknowledge it is His creation.
Be still and listen. Be still and read his Word. Be still and know that He is God.
Be still and know true contentment and peace and love. Tell others.
God so loved the world that He gave his only son. Jesus died on the cross for me and for you. The Bible tells us over and over that this love is lasting and that He will never change. He won’t disappoint. He will never fail you.
Trust your lives to the God that created you, for He will never fail you.
1 Peter 4:19
Make me walk along the path of your commands, for that is where my happiness is found.
Psalm 119:35
Godspeed.
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