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The German poet Karl Buss sang in his most famous poem, “Beyond the Mountains, beyond the mountains, beyond the mountains, beyond the sky, where people say there is happiness, so I went there with my friends, but I came back with only tears.”
Beloved, where is happiness? Will it be with material? Or is it when you are healthy? There are times in our lives when we seek happiness. Some people may find that they spend their whole life trying to accumulate material things, as if material things are everything to happiness, and they are disappointed because of it. Some people think that health, fame, or power are happiness, and they go looking for it, and you can see them weeping because of it.
So what is happiness? The Bible says “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful, but delight in the word of God and meditate on it day and night.” In other words, happiness is rejoicing in the word of God and feeling happiness because of it. Like the prophet Habakkuk, “Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, I will rejoice in the Lord, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. will rejoice over you” (Habakkuk 3:17-18).
In this way, happiness is to feel joy in one's life, and to recognize that even if it is difficult, difficult, painful, or exhausting, itself is a metabolite of our emotions, and it is a process that we must go through in order to achieve a higher ideal.
Just like a pearl oyster, when a grain of sand gets stuck in its wound, it exerts all its strength to heal the wound, and a pearl is found in the healed wound. Injuries give the clam an effort it never thought possible, and in the end something beautiful emerges that wouldn't have happened if it hadn't been done. The pearl has become a masterpiece of wounds.
In our lives, a happy life can come through wounds. It was because of his deaf wound that Beethoven, who was deaf, wrote a better symphony, and that Milton, who was blind, was able to write good writing, and his blind wound led him to a beautiful world of work. So what is happiness? It is happiness to make pearls by healing all our wounds that we think are unhappy. In other words, every misfortune, every failure, and every loss is turned into a happy tool by the power of God. That's why Abraham Lincoln said, "A man can be as happy as he decides to be."
In the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5, Jesus said that blessed people should be able to control their own hearts. In other words, in order to achieve a certain dream and achieve the goal of a happy life, you must be able to pay the price for that dream. To possess the kingdom of heaven, one must be poor in spirit, to be comforted, to mourn, and to inherit the earth, one must be meek.
What do you mean? Happiness without a price is not happiness, it is the same as wishing for good fortune and fortune-telling. In order to taste something, we have to invest in it. Just as we need training to love art if we want to enjoy art, so we need real piety training as Christians to enjoy true happiness as Christians. So Job confessed, “But he knows the way I go; and after he has tried me I will come forth as gold” (Job 23:10). This is where happiness hides. In this world in which I live, when I take the talents given to me and go forward at the cost of my dreams of tomorrow, happiness resides in them.