HAPPINESS IS FOR TODAY. JOY IS AVAILABLE NOW. WE ARE NOT TO PUT IT ON HOLD. HAPPINESS ISN'T SOMETHING THAT WILL SECRETLY OPEN UP TO US WHEN WE TURN FIFTY FIVE. OR, WHEN WE REACH SOME GOAL OR FINE THE RIGHT MARRIAGE PARTNER. HAPPINESS IS FOR NOW .IT IS INSEPARABLY LINKED TO THE LIVING GOD. "A CATECHISM IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BEGINS WITH THE QUESTION ,"WHAT IS THE CHIEF END OF MAN ."THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION IS TO MANY: "THE CHIEF END OF MAN IS TO LOVE THE MASTER GOD AND ENJOY HIM FOREVER. "NOT JUST SERVE HIM. NOT JUST OBEY HIM, NOT JUST SACRIFICE TO HIM. NOT SIMPLY COMMIT OURSELVES TO HIM. BUT ENJOY HIM -"LAUGH THROUGH LIFE WITH HIM ."SMILE IN HIS PRESENCE. SO MUCH MORE IS INCLUDED IN ENJOYING HIM FOREVER THAN MOST WOULD EVER BELIEVE...HAPPINESS IS TO PREVAIL ALL THE YEARS OF OUR LIFE. WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL WE REACH SOME MAGICAL AGE WHEN WE ARE ALLOWED TO CRACK OPEN THE DOOR; SLIP SILENTLY INTO THE REALM OF HAPPINESS. IT'S THERE FOR US TO ENJOY THROUGHOUT OUR DAYS. LIVING ON THE RAGGED EDGE . "IS NOT LIVING AS OUR MASTER GOD HAD PLAN FOR US. SO CALL ON MY LORD AND HE WILL BE RIGHT THERE. JUST BEGIN TO LIVE THROUGHOUT THE REST OF YOUR YEARS AS OUR MASTER HAD PLAN IT, AMEN. FROM MY LORD GOD UNTO MY LORD I WILL KEEP DOING HIS WILL, AMEN.
IF A MAN SHOULD LIVE MANY YEARS, LET HIM REJOICE IN THEM ALL AMEN
ECCLESIASTES 11:8
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