True and Eternal Happiness

UV 3331/10000 True and Eternal Happiness

I have told you these things so that My joy and delight may be in you, and that your joy may be made full and complete and overflowing.

John 15 v 11

The world teaches us to be happy due to happenings. The Word (Jesus) teaches us to be happy in the Lord for it says, “Rejoice in the Lord always and again I say, Rejoice.” We need to rejoice in our relationship with the Lord God through the Saviour Jesus who as Son of man and Son of God knew what it means to be joyful or sad. Jesus delighted in the Father even as the Father delighted in Him. Joy is “delight” or the release of light or the happiness of knowing the Truth. The joy that the world gives us is partial, incomplete, limited, not that shareable and never lasting while the joy that Jesus gives is full, complete, everlasting and overflowing or contagious.

The joy the world gives comes from “having” or “becoming” or achieving. The joy the Word gives comes from being one with Him. Man’s way is joy, pleasure, happiness come before pain while God’s way is pain and sadness come before eternal pleasure. The reason is to prepare our character to receive and enjoy enduring happiness. The pleasure that man seeks is sensual and temporal or related to our six senses while the pleasure or joy the Lord gives is spiritual and eternal. The ultimate purpose of Jesus to tell or teach us “these things” is to give us such lasting joy. The promises of God fulfilled in Jesus is also to ensure that our joy is full or complete. God is therefore not a joy killer as many think but a joy fulfiller.

The Word teaches us to delight in the Lord and His word and He will delight in us and grant us the desires of our hearts so that our joy is full to the point of overflowing and influencing, touching, impacting the lives of others around us. The pleasure the world gives is selfish or can be enjoyed by only the person experiencing it while the joy the Lord gives casues others also to rejoice in Him. The joy Jesus gives is not what the world can give. It is not just physical, intellectual or emotional though it could include these dimensions but it is spiritual, deep seated and eternal. It causes us to rejoice in all circumstances and despite happenings, not on account of it.