Title Happy People/Psalm 1:1-6
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The desire to live a happy life is a common desire of all living things. Everyone has different attitudes and expectations for happiness. People express their mind through body language and language. However, other living things cannot express their language. Shake or shake your body. And you may even scream.
There are also various measures of happiness, so it is difficult to say that only one is happy. There are people who look happy to others, but there are people who look very unhappy, but there are people who live full of happiness. There are people who cry, and there are people who are happy even though they have a mountain of unhappiness.
In a word, happiness is a comfortable thing, a pleasant thing, a good thing, and a contentment.
German naturalist Alexander Humboldt said, "Happiness or unhappiness depends on the way we deal with the events rather than the nature of the events that occur in life."
Those who wish for happiness can be divided into:
First, there are people who talk about happiness.
They know, speak and teach happiness. But they are unhappy. They are hovering on the outskirts of happiness.
A famous philosopher wrote a book called "The Love of God." When his book was published, it became a bestseller, and even psychiatrists used or recommended it to treat patients. One day, a haggard patient visited a psychiatrist. He came. He was seriously ill. The doctor met him and promised to continue treatment after the interview. And I introduced him to a book.
"I'll introduce you to a book that might be helpful to you."
"What kind of book is it?"
"This book was written by a famous philosopher. It is now an all-time bestseller."
"Please introduce the book."
"Have you ever heard of the book The Love of God?"
After a while, the patient answered with the sound of a mosquito.
"I am the author of the book," he said.
Second, there are people who are waiting for happiness.
These are people who hope that one day happiness will come to you on foot. These are people who go for fortune telling, people who go to see the fortunes of the year and month, and people who buy lottery tickets and pray all night long.
I am reminded of Hesse's poem, "Because there is happiness beyond that mountain, I went to find it with you and came back with only tears."
Happiness doesn't have feet. It doesn't come on foot. It's not picked up on the street.
A believer should not wish for luck.
I got a call from a member of the church who had been out of the church for 3 months a long time ago. At the beginning of the year, my friends and I went to the “Dangal Volunteer Virgin Priest” in Miari to do divination. But this year's fortune telling is that it's too ominous and unsettling, and I can't stand it.
What he received was terrifying. His husband died or was injured, his business would go bankrupt in August, and one of his children would be ill. But he was victorious through faith. I didn't, and now I'm a butler.
If anyone lives their life on divination or mechanics, turn around quickly.
Third, there are people who destroy happiness.
Happiness does not come from choosing a person. Everyone is given a chance to be happy. However, there are those who forsake or destroy that happiness. The genius poet Goethe said, "I have never been happy except for a week in my life."
Fourth, there are happy people.
In general, people understand happiness to be healthy, long life, wealthy, precious, and passing on from generation to generation. But happiness does not constitute happiness alone. Andrew Carnegie said, "Happiness is a state of mind rather than being determined by extraterrestrial circumstances. It will depend on what happens.”
We meet in the text who really happy people are.
1. People who have chosen a wise life.
Verse 1 says, “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked.” There are people who live their lives by schemes, and there are people who live by truth, sincerity, and faith.
There are evil schemes and good schemes. However, most schemes are used badly. If you live your life by schemes and live in the world, you will eventually fall for your own schemes. there will be people
It is said that office workers in their mid-40s are more likely to get sick. It is because of excessive competition and mental burden. In psychiatry, this phenomenon is called a stress syndrome. Even if you make a lot of money and buy a big house, how many years can you live in that house?
Family cooperation is necessary to live without following the counsel of the wicked.
The husband wants to earn a good income and live a good life, but if the wife is rude, it is difficult for the husband to behave.
If you say that you can't make money, that you can't succeed, or that you make fun of others by comparing them to others, then your husband will become either a fool or a thief. On the other hand, a wife wants to live an upright life, but her husband steals. What kind of psychological pain would his wife feel if she brought him some bad money and told him to teach his children and make a living with that money?
If a couple gets along well, conspires together and lives after evil, the end is obvious.
In Psalm 10:2, it says, "Let them fall into the schemes that he has given them." Yes. In the end, those who follow evil schemes will fall into their schemes.
Evil schemes are evil ways and means of living life.
Proverbs 15:26 says, “Evil counsel is an abomination to the LORD, but a good word is pure.”
In the not too distant future, we will have a line. There will be a line of people who lived by evil schemes. And there will be a line of the righteous who lived after good. In which line should we stand?
2. He is a humble person.
Verse 1 says, “I do not sit in the seat of the scornful.”
There is a word in Hebrew called zud, which means 'to boil over, to be arrogant, to be proud of, to be proud of'.
There is a word in Greek called tuphoo. It means 'to cast a smoke screen, to inflate with one's deceit, to be arrogant, to sleep'. Two words explain the meaning. It's exaggerated, but the reality is that it doesn't matter.
The more proud people are, the more they cast a smoke screen to hide their weaknesses.
People who are really educated and have life experience don't bother. People who brag about money and brag about it are usually sloppy.
Happy people do not sit in the seat of the arrogant.
According to the Bible, proud people and cities were judged consistently.
King Saul was also proud and the dynasty came to an end.
Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar of Babylon were also judged for their pride.
In Ezekiel 16:49, it is said that the sin of Sodom, which had been judged by fire with brimstone, was pride.
The most terrible of all pride is atheism.
Psalm 10:4 says, "The wicked with a proud face... they say there is no God."
And in Proverbs 16:18, it is said, "Pride is the forerunner of destruction," and in James 4:6, it is said, "God opposes the proud."
We must acknowledge the fact that God exists and believe that we cannot live apart from God. And we must believe that it is true happiness when we live in God's grace.
3. People who live by faith.
In verse 2 of the text, it is said, “The one who delights in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on it day and night.” To enjoy the law is to delight in God.
Those who hate God have no reason to like the Word. However, if you love, love, and serve God,
We have no choice but to rejoice in the Word and meditate on it morning and night.
A person who is reluctant to listen to a sermon, a person who is afraid to read the Bible, or a person whose face changes when he opens the Ten Commandments cannot be a person who loves and believes in God. It means obedience and practice.
The important thing is "day and night".
The day is the day and the night is the night. The day is bright and the night is dark. When it is bright or dark, when it is happy, when it is sad, when it is good or when it is bad, even when it succeeds or fails, we meditate on the word of the Lord and practice it.
The teaching of the text is that such people are happy people. Then, what kind of happiness do they enjoy? Verse 3 is the answer.
“I am like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither, and all its events prosper.”
Prosperity means a life without blockages.
Anyone who has ever driven a highway will understand. Sometimes driving at 100 km/h for 2 hours and then a car is pushed and standing there for 4 hours.
On the other hand, there are cases where it runs continuously at 60 km/h without a blockage. It is much more comfortable and pleasant to run continuously without blockage.
Prosperity is running unobstructed. It can be a bit slow, but it's much better than taking a break on the way.
The text compares a prosperous life to a tree planted by a stream.
It means that it bears fruit according to its age, and its leaves become like a tree that never withers. A tree that withers and does not bear fruit is a tree that does not serve its purpose.
It is said that George Gallup conducted a poll to find out which people were happy.
In a TV interview, he said this about the results of the investigation.
"The happiest people were those with vivid religious experiences, and the most unhappy people were those who went to and from bars day and night," he said.
Verse 6 says, “The way of the righteous is the Lord approved.”
It is a concluding statement.
The happiest people are those whom God approves.
The happiest life is a life that God approves.
The happiest thing is what God approves of.
Is the work I am doing now and the life I am living acceptable to God?
Am I receiving God's approval now?
Then you are a happy person.
But if not, you are unlucky.