DECIDE TO BE HAPPY
All of life is about decisions. We decide when to get up and when to go to bed. We choose between fast food and home cooking. We may prefer to pay bills on line over mailing the payments. Did you know that we may also choose to be happy….or not?
We all have setbacks in life that can be devastating. Whether we’re aware of it or not, we do choose either to allow the misfortune to defeat us or become an obstacle that we will overcome. Satan pounces on us when these troubles come into our lives. He delights in seeing us suffer (i.e. Job) and uses our suffering in attempts to move us from God.
Where do we turn to ward off the wiles of the devil? There is nowhere we may look with more help than God’s word. There are several we could focus on this time of year that can divert our attention to brighter days. Here is but one of those. “For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come.” SONG OF SOLOMON 2:11-12 KJV
Robert Louis Stevenson is quoted as saying: “There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
May you and I work harder at being happy. Perhaps we keep looking in all the wrong places.
To your happiness,
Mike
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