Title: Finding Happiness
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Finding happiness (John 4:1-18)
The woman at the well in the text was married five times while wandering here and there in search of a dream of happiness. But the thirst for happiness was not quenched. To the woman thirsty for happiness, Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks the water I will give him will never thirst. 4:13-14). There are four dimensions to the happiness that everyone in this world longs for. The quality of life and personality depend on what kind of happiness you seek and follow.
1. Happiness is achieved when needs are met.
2. There is happiness due to a shift in perception.
This is the happiness that comes from enlightenment. The situation I'm in hasn't changed, but when I realize how lucky and grateful I am in my current situation, I feel happy because of this. I didn't know it before, but because of realization, I am happy, grateful, and happy.
3. There is happiness through self-sufficiency.
4. There is happiness through dedication.
It is the happiness I feel when I give up my things to love my neighbor or to fulfill the mission given to me. This is the greatest happiness a person can enjoy. It is the highest level of happiness. A stingy person who is driven by selfishness and knows nothing but himself cannot experience this happiness at all. God said, “In all things I have set an example for you, that in this way you toil to help the weak, and to remember the Lord Jesus Himself, saying, It is more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts 20: 35) you did. He also said, “Give, and it will be given to you; and it will be given to you, being generous, pressed down, shaking, and overflowing” (Luke 6:38). The happiness felt by seeing a neighbor in need rejoice because of the love I have given him is indescribable joy, reward, and satisfaction. Only then can there be a sense of reward and satisfaction to say, “I have done a humane thing.”
“Lord, I wanted strength for my career, but you gave me weakness to learn obedience. Lord, I asked for health to do great things, but you gave me sickness to do greater good. Lord, I sought riches to be happy, but you gave me poverty so that I might be wise. Lord, I asked for honor to be a man respected by all, but you made me sacrifice for others. I am a happy man, though I have not received anything of your request, but you have given me all that you have hoped for.”
Regarding this all-weather happiness, the text says, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I will give him will never thirst. -14) did. True happiness is found only in Jesus Christ. Only those who take Jesus Christ as their goal and live according to Him can enjoy springing happiness. Just as Jesus Christ, the source of this happiness, met the Samaritan woman, the Lord has come to us as well. So we became children of God. “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day” (John 6:44).
1 Corinthians 12:3 says, “No one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.” Please believe in this precious Jesus Christ. Please love this precious Jesus Christ with all your heart, devotion, and will. Please trust in this precious Jesus Christ. Please obey these precious words of Jesus Christ. You will enjoy a springing happy life.