Daily devotion – the search for happiness!
Mat 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
I know someone very close to us whose hunger and thirst for the things of God at this moment in their life is making a tremendous impact upon them. Each time I talk to them, they overflow with the wonders of God that they have recently discovered as they study God’s precious Word.
They are like a bubbling spring of water that has no end but keeps on throwing out the most precious of wonderful clean water.
This person has found out that God is the only source of true happiness, because He offers those intangibles that we mistakenly believe the world can provide – contentment, security, peace, and hope for the future.
None of these can be found in a job, a human relationship, money, power or position.
They are God’s alone!
How hard it is for us to believe this, however! This is understandable if we have not given our lives to Christ; then, the Bible says, our spiritual “eyes” are still blinded, unable to see God’s truth until the Holy Spirit opens them.
But it can happen to us a Christians also – falling into the pattern of the world, vainly pursuing happiness in the same ways the world does.
That is why Jesus, in His sermon on the Mount, told us where ultimate happiness is to be found: Mat 5:6 “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.”
This is God’s promise – and it is true. Riches……..or righteousness?
Which will be your goal?