Recipe for happiness

Thursday 22 April 2021

What is the use of living twice 1000 years without enjoying happiness ? Ecclesiastes 6. 6

Looked ! Today I place before you life and good, or death and evil... Choose life in order to live. Deuteronomy 30. 15, 19

Recipe for happiness

Happiness is one of the most sought-after values. Eastern spirituality exercises promise serenity, peace, harmony. Some advisers recommend work on oneself, personal development... These various procedures are all based on the same basis : confidence in man and in his abilities, which is quite disappointing.

Christian faith is based on the Bible, which is not a book of "recipes for happiness", but the good news of the love of God. This love, demonstrated by the work of Jesus, gives a peace and a joy which is not dependent on external circumstances.

True happiness is linked to the reconciliation of man with his Creator : "Reconcile yourself with God, be at peace with him ! This is how you will know happiness" (Job 22. 21). Since sin entered mankind (Romans 5:12), men has been deprived of that state of well-being and peace which is found in God. Jesus, the Son of God, came to save us from this eternal death, that is, the lack of relationship with God. To make us know life, peace, true happiness, Jesus had to be abandoned by God on the cross when he suffered in our place the punishment we had deserved. On the basis of this work, God offers us each to be "delivered from the power of darkness" to place us in "the kingdom of the Son of his love" (Colossians 1:13). True happiness is here now for all who make the choice to live in Jesus Christ.

Source (The Good Seed)