WHO DECIDETH WHETHER THOU SHALT BE HAPPY OR UNHAPPY?To answer this just wakeup in the morning and choose to be unhappy.Go around telling yourself that things aren't going well, that nothing is satisfactory,and you can be quite sure of being unhappy.But say to yourself,"Things are goin nicely.Life is good. I choose happiness," and you can be quite certain of having your choice.You can be happy if you madeup your mind to be so.
Children are more expert in happiness than adults.The adult who can carry the spirit of a child into middle and old age is a genius,for he will preserve the truly happy spirit with which God endowed the young. The subtely of Jesus Crist is remarkable,for He tells us that the way to live in this world is to have a child like heart and mind. In other words, never get old and dull or jaded in spirit.Dont become super sophisticated. To become happy person have a cleansoul,eyes that see romance in commonplace,a child's heart,and spiritual simplicity.
Many of us manufacture our own unhappiness. Of course not all unhappiness are self created,for social conditioo are responcible for not few of our woes.Yet it is a fact that to a large extent by our thoughts and attitudes we distill out of the ingredient of either happiness or unhappiness for ourselves. Apart from this our happiness is further distiled by saturatin the concious with feelings of resentment,ill will,and hate.
Make a listof happy thought and pass them through your mind everyday if unhappines thought should enter your mind eject it,and rubstitute a happines thought.When you wake up before you rise drop happy thought into your mind dont affirm that things will not be Ok that day.Always remember the words of psalm118:24,"this is the day which the Lord hath made;i will rejoice and be glad in it".
"Where love is,"said Tolstoy,"God is,"and we might add up,where God and love are there is happiness.So a practicle principle in creating happiness is through prayers and love.
"The way to happiness:keep your heart free from hate,your mind from worry. Live simple ,expect little ,give much.Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine.Forget self ,think others",i dont remember where i read these words but their nothing new in them."indeed,there is something new in it if you have tried it.Try them for 1 week and they ll not bring the beginng of real happiness,then your happiness is very deep seated indeed.
All the above mentioned are secondary source of happiness the primary source is God. Set yourself free and find God as a living, vital, honest-to-goodness realiaty. Get a spiritual renewal fill your heart with God spirit Believe in Jesu Christ because,"In Him was life;and the life was the light of men".Selah
