True Happiness, Peace and Joy

Where does true happiness, peace and joy come from?  Many may think they come from the American dream.  Some will say they are from having a family, a home, a good job and a very nice vehicle.  Some attribute true happiness, peace and joy to having large quantities of money or a large amount of stocks.  Some will say if you are famous like a movie or TV star you will have true happiness, peace and joy.  But in all honesty, none of these things bring true, lasting happiness, peace and joy; they are like the bandage that covers a festering wound that cannot be healed, just masked.  

Then there are those that may think it is the next hit of whatever their choice of drug is or more alcohol or sex, but none of these bring true happiness, peace and joy to your life either.  Then there are others that think if I can just become an all-star sports player, the top of my field, I will have true happiness, peace and joy in my life; but, like I said earlier in this blog, none of these things will bring true happiness, peace and joy.  There are people that have experienced these goals and when they did they said, “is this all there is,” and as a result they lost their happiness, also their peace and their joy because it was just superficial.

This is going to sound like an old cliché, but it is true, the only way that you will ever experience true peace, love and joy is through the Lord, by having a personal relationship with Him.  Read Isaiah 26:3, “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.” 

People that are true believers have a peace that passes all understanding because it comes from the inside and not the outside, because it comes from the Lord.  

Now read Isaiah 35:10, “And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with singing, with everlasting joy on their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”

True born-again believers have been ransomed of the Lord and because of it they can sing with everlasting joy also.  Does this mean they never experience tribulation or trials and, at times, persecution?  Of course not, but when these things happen they may not always be jumping up and down but that doesn’t mean they don’t have God’s peace and joy in their lives; some people express these things in different ways. 

Now please Read 1 Peter 1:8-9, “Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.”

When a person repents and turns from their sins, making a conscious decision to forsake their sins and follow the Lord, and receives the Lord’s grace, His unmerited favor they will have inexpressible joy when the Lord’s peace, love and joy flows through them!!  For the kingdom of God is righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit!!  

The way to receive these things is to repent with true, godly sorrow which means turning away from your sins, confessing them and asking God to forgive you and to be your Lord and Savior.  If you do this in all sincerity, I think the Lord will honor your prayer and cleanse you from all unrighteousness, then you will experience the things I have been writing about here.  Praise the Lord!!

Now please read this Romans 15:13, “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

I hope this has been helpful and a blessing!!  May you have a super day, and may the good Lord bless you and yours!!