Tag: happiness

Celebrating Me

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The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you by His love; He will exult over you with loud singing. Zephaniah 3:17

Don’t you love a celebration?

Happiness explodes while loved ones bring honor to the one celebrated.

God celebrates you. While He is in your midst, meaning with you, He saves you.

Not only does He save you, but He rejoices over you with gladness.

Repeat after me: God celebrates me!

Rejoicing over you with gladness can mean only one thing: God cheers you on. He is your biggest and loudest cheerleader.

His love quiets any storms within your heart. Any doubts. Any fears. Anything less than the goodness He has for you.

He delights in you. So much so, that He sings over you.

Can you picture yourself singing over something? You’re usually in a pretty great mood over something to sing about it.

It’s like you can’t help it, but break out in song when something is just pure delight.

And that’s how God thinks about you.

And the best part is we don’t earn any of this love. God’s love is not for sale. Not earned. And not taken away.

Genesis reminds us God created us in His image (1:27).

And many verses declare we are also God’s child (1 John 3).

God delights in you because you are His. Do you act like it? You should! Wear that crown!

God delights in you simply because you are His creation.

God, who created all things, notices and celebrates little ‘ole you. Someone throw me a pom-pom!

Photos by Samuel Myles, Nathan Anderson, Eliza Diamond, & Adi Goldstein on Unsplash

Seeking

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You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all of your heart. Jeremiah 29:13

What are you seeking after?

What would you give your life for?

What if this happiness costs you something.

Would it be worth it, whatever this is you seek?

Temporary pain for the greater good comes to mind.

Further college education classes last only a few months.

Haha, or years, but the reward is usually a better job and more money.

Exercise takes a few minutes each day with the gain of health.

Planning the holidays creates work but memories for years to come.

What are you seeking after at the cost of your happiness?

The position of self?

To be “right”?

An attitude, perhaps?

Is it worth it?

Been studying Augustine lately for a class.

Yes, the one from the 4th century.

His ultimate goal of education was the pursuit of happiness and peace of God.

He longed to hear God’s voice.

What if your goals were replaced with these?

The pursuit of God’s love and peace.

Is your pursuit creating peace in your soul?

Are you seeking after God to be your everything?

We were never meant to live alone.

Created for love, we were meant to live in community.

Community that ministers to us in the valleys and celebrates us in the hills.

Who do you answer to every day?

Your sweet self?

Or God?

Oh God, make us more like You.

Create in us a clean heart, seeking You with all that we are and listening for Your voice to direct our paths.

Photos by Oscar Helgstrand on Unsplash