Holiness-Happiness Optimisation

UV 3260/10000 Holiness-Happiness Optimisation

In that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk (that is, to live each and every day) in His ways and to keep His commandments and statutes and His judgements( precepts), so that you will live and multiply, and that the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you are entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 30 v 16 (Amplified Version)

Man has set a goal consciously or unconsciously to pursue his own happiness. Yes, we can pursue happiness but only within the framework of commands and rules set by the Lord God, the Creator and our Redeemer. We need to optimize our pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of His holiness. This will be our safety net and we will not transgress on the happiness of others. The uni-verse promises that we will live and multiply or in other words, live fully or live the abundant life and multiply our blessings, our resources, our relationships, our accomplishments, our descendants. In order that we “ live and multiply”, or in short, be happy, we need to love the Lord or have a personal equation with Him in Christ. We cannot equate ourselves with the infinite, absolutely holy and absolutely just as well as omnipotent God on our own. But, we plus Christ Jesus can stand on terms of friendship or mutual trust with God. Faith in Christ is then, the multiplying factor of our lives. Jesus removes the curse of hamartia or shortcoming and multiplies our blessings, our strength, our capacity or ability.

Once we have a covenant relationship with the Lord God, we need to commit ourselves to walk in His ways all the days of our lives. When we choose to walk in obedience to the voice of the Holy Spirit, the commandments and precepts of His word, we are choosing life and a life of blessings. We are humbling ourselves before God, saying that we lack knowledge, wisdom and understanding to make the right choices on our own or with our own intellects and reasoning. We need to depend on His word and His guidance at every step of our way.

When we please God with our obedience and faithful discipline, He makes our happiness, His business. As the Psalmist puts it, “He fills our mouths with good things” or in other words, He fills our minds and mouths with positive thoughts and words. He ensures that we lack no good thing in our lives. Like even an earthly father reserves the best for his children from what he can afford, our heavenly Father reserves the best for us and having given us what is dearest to His heart, His beloved Son, will He deny us our happiness? We must however, prioritise the requirements of His holiness over our own happiness. In so doing, we actually optimize our happiness and His holiness.